A Simple protocol to view aspx pages without IIS implemented in C# - The Code Project - ASP.NET

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Introduction
Ever since I started working with asp pages, I've always wanted to be able to test them simply from the file system without having to configure IIS or setup a virtual directory. Especially when downloading and looking at sample code from sites like CodeProject. While working on an application for web based acceptance testing, I discovered how to make it happen. First, ASP.NET lets you host the runtime outside of IIS. Second, Microsoft provides the Asynchronous Pluggable Protocol interfaces to create custom protocols for IE. I just needed to hook a custom protocol up to an instance of the ASP.NET runtime and everything would work great. My final solution came out pretty close to that, but there were quite a few problems I had to work through along the way.

I've included two protocols, echo: and aspx:. The echo protocol just echoes the url line as html text. This is the test protocol I wrote just to make sure I got the headers right. Aspx will run any aspx page locally and load the result in IE. It supports most headers and postback but doesn't support cookies just yet. I've added a shell extension as well that lets you just right click on any aspx file and execute it using the aspx protocol.