Aral Balkan

I wanted to play with the .NET version of the ARP PizzaService application by Mark Piller on WebOrb for .NET so I thought I'd try it out under Mono on OS X. Unfortunately, WebOrb for .NET only appears to be available as an MSI and thus I don't seem to have a way of installing it on OS X. (Not that it was guaranteed to work under Mono but I was hoping it would.) In any case, Mono is very cool. It's basically .NET for Linux/OS X/etc.

To test out ASP.NET on OS X, install Mono on OS X, then open up a terminal window and go to /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/xsp/test. There, type xsp to start a development server and open up http://localhost:8080 on your machine to view the ASP.NET samples.

Cool, huh? I'm off to play with WebOrb for Ruby on Rails with Flex 2.

Comments

• You could try Fluorine (http://osflash.org/fluorine)... as a hotshots lecturer once said to me when i mentioned weborb: "Why? when there's open source remoting for .net on osflash" :P

  by DannyT on 2006-09-26 19:10:20

• LOL -- I think I know that guy! See, this is why I teach! :)

  by aral on 2006-09-26 19:20:03

• Aral, Let me know if you are still interested to try WebORB on Mono. I can zip up an installation for you so you can avoid MSI altogether.

  by Mark Piller on 2006-09-26 19:27:32

• Hey Mark, that would be very cool. I got half-way through installing it on Windows under Parallels and then realized I don't have my Windows CDs with me here in London and that I need to install IIS for WebOrb .NET to install. Btw, apologies for the typo in your name (now fixed). If I had a penny for every time I've written "Mark" as "Mike". It's a weird disability I appear to have.

  by aral on 2006-09-26 19:44:37

• Btw, Dan, it doesn't appear that Fluorine's been updated to support AMF3.

  by aral on 2006-09-26 19:48:17

• nope, has done for some time http://fluorine.thesilentgroup.com/fluorine/index.html (2nd from last in contents on left)

  by DannyT on 2006-09-26 20:02:30

• Hmm, interesting, it was just that page that confused me. It shows the workaround for using AMF0 with Flex 2 (the same one I use with the Flex 2 sample app in ARP with AMFPHP.) I just looked at the source and it does appear to have AMF3 support. Not sure why that workaround is on the doc page, though. Was it left from the Beta 2 days when Fluorine didn't have AMF3 support?

  by aral on 2006-09-26 21:03:35

• Alot of the documentation needs updating. Speaking of, I actually tried to update the fluorine page on osflash but couldn't, I also can't seem to login to osflash and there's no password reminder... can you lookup or reset the password for DannyT?

  by DannyT on 2006-09-26 22:25:47

• Dude, would you believe that DokuWiki doesn't have a password recovery feature? The easiest thing to do is to create a new account. Sucks, I know. I'll spare you the usual "we're looking into it" spiel. Truth is, there's a long list of things I want to implement on OSFlash :)

  by aral on 2006-09-28 01:23:22

• Can you guys give idea if how stable is Mono interms of ASP.Net Web Application using C#?

  by Roland on 2009-01-05 19:10:25

• So after you get Mono running and I'm able to view the sample asp files how do I send my own files to mono and open them up in the browser? I've been looking over the Mono site and there doesn't seem to be a straight answer to this.

  by Will on 2009-07-23 16:27:21