self hosting asp.net mvc

Solution 1:

You can use "IIS 7.0 Hostable Web Core" and host the web server as part of any user process, even a console application. The benefit is that it is very similar to full blown IIS (incl config etc) but the web server itself is running in your process.

Have a look at the following articles:

1. Host your own Web Server in your application using IIS 7.0 Hostable Web Core
2. Creating Hosted Web Core Applications

Solution 2:

Please have a look at http://cassinidev.codeplex.com/ It has many advantages for example

• No need IIS 7 on client machine
• Support MVC (I have tested myself)
• Work well with Windows Form and Web Browser Control for packaging as Windows App
• Cross Win OS platform ( Windows XP, Vista, 7) I have test XP with .NET 4 installed

Hope this helps.