XSP is a simple, standalone

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written in C# that hosts ASP.NET's System for

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and other

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s. It runs on the Mono runtime for Linux and the .NET Framework runtime, making it usable as a lightweight web server on any platform supporting .NET. ''XSP'' was the original name of the internal project at

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that became ASP.NET. The name pays homage to the original name of what became ASP.NET.

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* * Mono (software) .NET programming tools Microsoft free software Software using the MS-PL license Linux-only free software {{Linux-stub

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