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Asked: 2026-05-30T20:56:50+00:00

Is it possible to deploy a console c# application on IIS Server. I have

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Is it possible to deploy a console c# application on IIS Server.
I have one .exe file running on a machine which takes data from named pipe and my c# application takes this data from the pipe and send it to the web application running using TCP sockets, I want to know if i can deploy my C# console application on the webserver?
I am new to ASP.net and C#.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can host an exe file on IIS server, but it is not a common practice to deploy C# console applications,

    1. In this way you don’t know if the client machine has proper .NET Framework installed. So the console application may not even launch.
    2. The web browser can simply block the download.
    3. Even if the exe file is downloaded, unless the user launches it locally, it won’t run automatically.

    Recommended approach by Microsoft is to deploy the client side application using ClickOnce,

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

    You can then host the ClickOnce installer on IIS side. For example, Microsoft CodePlex uses this kind of deployment for its open source projects,

    http://codeplex.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ClickOnce

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