UltiDev Cassini Web Server

The UltiDev Cassini Web Server is a redistributable and light-weight web server for Microsoft Windows. In fact it is one of the commonest web server for Microsoft Windows. The UltiDev Cassini Web Server can at the same time serve static HTML and multiple ASP.NET applications. There is a basic difference between the UltiDev Cassini Web Server and the Internet Information Services Web Server. The UltiDev Cassini Web Server is friendly with the Windows Operating Systems but IIS is not supported by the Windows Operating Systems. It can serve multiple ASP.NET applications and static HTML at the same time.

History of UltiDev Cassini Web Server

With Microsof entering the software paradigm, it commenced its web application technologies by introducing Active Server Pages (ASP) and then the ASP.NET. ASP.NET was an application based related Microsoft subset .NET Framework. Since it requires underpinning by web server softwares, the servers were mostly IIS. IIS was not to be installed on the Windows XP Home Edition which was a major drawback of the same. This was a drawback of the ASP.NET applications.

The UltiDev Cassini Web Server has the ability to run one ASP.NET application per server. process instance. The UltiDev Cassini Web Server makes use of Cassini Sample Web Server source code in order for to process requests. The UltiDev Cassini Web Server is run as a windows service. The UltiDev Cassini Web Server also possesses an application management console. The UltiDev Cassini includes a Setup.exe bootstrapper.

Versions of UltiDev Cassini Web Server

There are two versions of UltiDev Cassini Web Server. The first versions of UltiDev Cassini Web Server is UltiDev Cassini Web Server for ASP.NET 2.0 & 3.x. The first versions of UltiDev Cassini Web Server, ASP.NET 2.0, version needs .NET Framework 2.0 or .NET Framework 3.x and can run most of ASP.NET applications. The second versions of UltiDev Cassini Web Server is UltiDev Cassini Web Server for ASP.NET 1.1. It can run side by side with the 2.0 version.

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