CreateApplicationHost & Session State, etc.

[SDS]

If you host an ASP.NET application within a Win32 assembly using
CreateApplicationHost(), does the ASP.NET code running within that host
still have access to HTTP-related members such as the Session object,
Request object, HttpContext, Form object, etc.?

I'm wondering how "1:1" the port is of an ASP.NET app running under IIS
using things like session & view state to an app hosted under
CreateApplicationHost().

Thanks!

 

[Brock Allen]

All of those things are the same and are created and managed by ASP.NET.
The big thing that's different when building your own hosting application
for ASP.NET is implementing the HttpWorkerRequest; this is the class were
you have to provide all of the information about the HTTP request. If you
use HttpListener then it's a lot easier since it does the HTTP parsing and
provides APIs to get at all that information. Your HttpWorkerRequest class
then is a simple pass-thru to the HttpListener implementation (still a lot
of pass-thrus though).