C# Webservice on Linux without Mono ?

Shecuna · 03-08-2011, 04:55 AM

Dear Community,

I have a little problem ... I have to write a C# webservice with ASP.NET. Thats quite simple. Start Visual Studio and some clicks later the webservice is done. Running it on apache under Windows is simple as well. Just download the Apache module and it works. Making it run under Linux is simple, too. Just use MONO and youre done. The problem is that i am not allowed to use MONO. So i have to find a way to make this C#-Webservice run under Linux without using Mono ...

Can anyone help me ?

Greetings

dugan · 03-08-2011, 08:31 AM

Why would that be a problem? Build it on a computer with Mono and deploy the compiled binaries to the computer that doesn't have Mono.

Of course, if what you mean is that you can't install the Apache module on the deployment computer, then the question is: "how do I get Mono working on a server that doesn't support it and where I'm not allowed to add support?" That question answers itself.

paulsm4 · 03-08-2011, 02:26 PM

The "promise" of web services was that they shouldn't CARE about what language they were written in, or what platform they were running on.

Your "web service" can be written in any language.

However, you chose to implement it in C#. Hence you need a .Net runtime in order to execute your implementation.

Soooooooo -

Mono would be a good choice. Windows and IIS would be another good choice.

Or you can always re-write your implementation in Java ... or Perl, Python, Ruby or C++