My idea might be very wired but am just thinking,

is it possible to create an app with asp.net mvc but to start up the app you use an exe created with C# to start it.

my thought is that, clients install .exe file from the internet, when they lunch the app on their pc, the exe app will fire up the web app with random port numbers just like the way it is done while debugging the mvc app on visual studio..

please is there any possibility for this? how can this be achieved..

You can host your site on IIS
Your exe cam download the site content and store in say d:\\MySite
then
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1286831/programatically-create-a-web-site-in-iis-using-c-sharp-and-set-port-number

but if you want to build a simple web server then
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/742260/Simple-Web-Server-in-csharp
should be a starting point.

ur right but its more like a self hosting app or may i say a standalone asp.net mvc4 web app.. just something, don't know if its possible, am still checking on nuget packages if something like that exists...

blenyo11:
You can host your site on IIS
Your exe cam download the site content and store in say d:\\MySite
then
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1286831/programatically-create-a-web-site-in-iis-using-c-sharp-and-set-port-number

but if you want to build a simple web server then
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/742260/Simple-Web-Server-in-csharp
should be a starting point.

Raypawer:
ur right but its more like a self hosting app or may i say a standalone asp.net mvc4 web app.. just something, don't know if its possible, am still checking on nuget packages if something like that exists...

why not use silverlight and save urself the stress, since it will run on a web browser.......

The solution is to selfhost but as at mvc5 self hosting is not supported unless you want to go mvc6 and selfhost using OWIN. Another route you might take is build your app in web api which you can selfhost. But your UI will be JS based all through. Your web api will just be serving JSON. I did something like this when I needed to decouple a CBT app from IIS and make it easy to setup and run. Angular should be a good choice for the UI part. Worked out well for me. I'll also advice you use SQL Compact for data storage.

Thanks man.. although I never thought of Web api, but now am thinking of using Web api then alongside use node and angular JS with it.. with mongo db or there about. But I also found something interesting about cassini web server..


Pls i'll like to contact you, my email is excelv7atgmaildotcom

henryexe:
The solution is to selfhost but as at mvc5 self hosting is not supported unless you want to go mvc6 and selfhost using OWIN. Another route you might take is build your app in web api which you can selfhost. But your UI will be JS based all through. Your web api will just be serving JSON. I did something like this when I needed to decouple a CBT app from IIS and make it easy to setup and run. Angular should be a good choice for the UI part. Worked out well for me. I'll also advice you use SQL Compact for data storage.

After almost a year, knowledge has greatly increased, i now realised that this possible using the asp.net web api, self hosting it. On the other hand, Golang has this functionality also... for those who might want to try, go ahead, dont be scared.. thats programming for you.