Similar, but the ASP.NET web apps are still dlls, not exes, built with C# or VB.net. The ASP.NET setup also seems similar to how vfp mtdlls work inside of mts which is a .EXE, I believe.

>Hi Claude,
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>>The technology of having VFP .EXE servers waiting for web requests is old technology(since the mid 90s).
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>Here are some quotes from an MSDN article about ASP.NET (The ASP.NET HTTP Runtime by Dino Esposito)
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>"The resultant ASP.NET process model comprises two system elements—an in-process connector living inside the Web server process and an external worker process."
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>"The ASP.NET ISAPI extension is responsible for invoking the ASP.NET worker process (aspnet_wp.exe) which, in turn, controls the execution of the request."
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>"The communication between the ISAPI and the worker process is conducted using a set of named pipes."
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>AFP has a very similar design...