Hosting ASP as desktop apps

[bus]

Our company has written an application that uses VB web classes. We want to sell this as an ASP and a desktop product.

We are trying to roll this program out to our users to install on their desktop, but Microsoft has decided that PWS / IIS cannot be redistributable by any third party, which simply means that the webclasses will not work.

Does anybody know a work-around for this problem, or of any other hosting environment that can process ASP pages?

 

[palbano]

> Does anybody know a work-around for this problem, or of any other hosting
> environment that can process ASP pages?

There is a product called ChiliSoft that has an ASP processor. It is a commercial product and it will not be an exact duplicate of the MS IIS COM MTS/COM+ environment.

There is no 'work-around' that provides a complete solution. What you could do if you wanted to is to use the Script engine ActiveX control (I don't know if this is re-distributable) to process your ASP. The real effort in this approach is that you must supply all the IIS intrinsic COM objects yourself or the sub-set of what your application needs to use in the ASP pages. There is an article on the MSDN Magazine site a few months ago that provides a very small sample of this.

Hope this helps
-pete