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04 Nov 2009 · Tags: .net

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If you need a simple web server for .NET, this is a solid piece of software.

I’ve needed an internal web server for my C# application and re-using someone else’s code certainly beats writing it from scratch.

It’s not spelled out on the web page, but it comes in two flavors:

lite, with only http serving core. When you download the code, look for it in branches directory
standard, which also includes things like templating engine

When I used added it to my project, I didn’t know about the lite version, so I added the files manually to the project and removed files I didn’t need manually. If I were starting from scratch, I would just use lite version.

So far I’m happy with the code – it does exactly what it advertises, saved me a bunch of time I didn’t spend writing it myself.

It uses Apache 2.0 license so can be used in commercial software as well.