Hosting .NET Web Service in Unmanaged C/C++ Process in Windows and Linux

This article presents custom hosting of ASP.NET middleware by the unmanaged process. It allows developers to use managed C# code to handle HTTP(S) requests almost as in the case of normal managed Web API, call unmanaged functions from the managed controller and return the result of the unmanaged code execution back to managed code. It runs in Windows and Linux alike.