Have a weird .Net question

[Matthew S.]

Howdy everyone, 

Have a weird .Net6/7 question...  Is it possible to host an ASP.Net 6/7 web app from within a WinForms/XAML application? (I don't mean as a separate exe, I mean to have it able to serve both a GDI window and the built-in webserver).

I'm working on a little SimConnect project and it would benefit from this.

 

The WinForm/XAML UI would only serve the purpose of verifying that a SimConnect connection has been established, debugging messages, and port settings.

[adrynalyne]

Something like this?

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hybrid/tutorials/wpf?view=aspnetcore-7.0

[Matthew S.]

No, I don't want to use it for the web side of things, I literally want a Windows UI that I can validate that the simconnect link is working (and/or with a button that literally says "Connect to Sim"), maybe a settings dialog, but still want ASP there to serve the web pages (using whichever front end toolkit I decide to go with, be it razor, blazor, etc).

 

Basically taking what would be two final exe's and making it one.

[Matthew S.]

Think I just found the answer to my own question...

https://jason-ge.medium.com/host-kestrel-web-server-in-net-6-windows-form-application-8b0fd70b4288