Is it possible to run an ASP.NET MVC website by hosting it as a windows service? If yes, how to achieve it?

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Hello Friends,
I need your help. I am developing a website in asp.net MVC and i need to run this website as a windows service on a server machine.

What I have tried:

Please provide me information on how to achieve it.

Posted 10-Dec-17 17:08pm

Muthu Raman

Updated 11-Dec-17 4:06am

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________________ 11-Dec-17 2:52am

Great challenge! What is next - self-made Sunset?
:-)
Why you cannot use IIS?

F-ES Sitecore 11-Dec-17 4:20am

It already does run as a service, the service is called IIS. Why can't the target machine just install IIS rather than something you've written yourself?

________________ 11-Dec-17 5:08am

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) could be hosted as Windows service and even console application, could have http binding at the endpoint, could build on server-side any html page, but... I think things like redirect, navigation and so on - you should implement yourself...

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2017-12-11T04:06:00

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All the comments make good points. If you need some of the same logic in a windows service then you should move that into a shared dll that your mvc site can access and also into a new windows service project.

Posted 11-Dec-17 4:06am

ZurdoDev