[DougWebb]

They're already providing a .NET web server. That's the 'self-hosting' examples Scott shows in the article: when you run the application that way, it becomes a web server for your app. It's just like a Node.js application. For a production deployment on Linux I'd probably run the app using Mono on a localhost port, and run Apache in front of it with a reverse-proxy config pointing to localhost.

BTW, if you're not a fan of ASP.Net MVC's style of web framework, take a look at Nancy[1]. It's much more lightweight, and can also run under Mono on Linux.

[1] http://nancyfx.org/

[alelefant]

I'm really looking forward to the self-hosting features. I have a few client (Windows Forms) applications that would be so much better within the browser. Opening that door for client-side web applications where network connectivity is a major issue would be so helpful.

However, there's 150 comments and no mention of the "vNext" name. Someone else must find the name silly!

[snuxoll]

vNext has been used for a while with ASP.NET and visual studio development. The next release is canonically called vNext (version next) until a formal name is given prior to release.