Journal: Starting out with Nancy on Mono Pt.1

Before starting out, I installed NuGet, per these combined instructions:

http://monomvc.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/nuget-on-mono/
http://grhughes.com/32/using-nuget-in-mono
http://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/1271

Special note on the last item there. I had to put Microsoft.Build.dll into the same directory as NuGet.exe before it would run. (Was failing for 'Could not load type 'NuGet.Commands.ProjectFactory')

Now that I was ready to move on to some code, I created a new C# ASP.NET project in MonoDevelop. I'm using MonoDevelop 3.0.5 that I built from source, but all other versions should have this option.

I downloaded the latest Nancy build from their CI server here: http://teamcity.codebetter.com/project.html?projectId=project112&tab=projectOverview&guest=true

Added references to Nancy.dll and Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet.dll in MonoDevelop.

On the Nancy wiki's into page, there is a Hello World snippet. Before running it, a web.config file must be created.

I found the default configuration here: https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Hosting-nancy-with-asp.net

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
    <httpHandlers>
      <add verb="*" type="Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet.NancyHttpRequestHandler" path="*"/>
    </httpHandlers>
  </system.web>

  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
    <handlers>
      <add name="Nancy" verb="*" type="Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet.NancyHttpRequestHandler" path="*"/>
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Pressed Start program without debugging and watched magic happen!

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