Web services on XPE

[Andrea De Nardis]

Hi all,
I need to develop some web services and XPE should be the ws server, and
MUST fit in 128MB. The simple and straight way to make this is using .NET
framework and IIS but this make my image stay in 170MB (compressed). Is
Microsoft interested in spread .NET technlogy? If so, it should release a
very ligth .NET Framework component and IIS as well. It is fool to force
people insert Outlook Express and Internet Explorer just for this core
services.
Please help me!!!
regards,
Andrea

 

[KM]

Andrea,

I will leave your indignation to express to MS guys.
I was just wondering if you have spent some time trying to minimize the image footprint yourself?

You can learn a few tricks on how to do that here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/...ry/en-us/dnembedded/html/embedded04152003.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../xetbshowtoreducefootprintofrun-timeimage.asp

Also, you can try the cut-and-try method. Try removing some (sometime pretty obvious) possible unnecessary libraries (dlls) from
your runtime and see how it breaks the IIS and .Net functionality. You may end up with a pretty small footprint but webservices may
still work. However, MS unlikely supports such scenario of using .Net and IIS. Keep this in mind when you cut down the image
components.
Also, use Filemon/Regmon tools if you cannot easy figure out the app dependencies.