How come you want to create a CGI applicaion? Even if you get it working as
a CGI application, the server will need the .NET runtime, at which point
it's probably better to create an ASP.NET application?

Hi Michael,

For C# based CGI program, you can build a console application which read
environment variables and write output to standard output. Here are some
articles introcuding this:

#Creating a C#/.NET CGI Executable
http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/1143.aspx

#Understanding CGI with C#
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/cgi_csharp.aspx

However, I think for CGI or ISAPI filters, unmanaged interface will still
be preferred. Also, for webservice, since it receive SOAP XML message and
return SOAP response, if you create your own CGI application as webservice,
you will have to do the XML processing yourself which may require much more
work. Is there any particular reason here that you can not use the ASP.NET
webservice or even WCF service?

Sincerely,

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From: "Michael Tissington" <mtissington@newsgroup.nospam>
Subject: Create cgi web service
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:43:54 -0700

Using Visual Studio 2008 can someone point me to an example to create a cgi
web service in C# ?

Thanks.