# Re: can i use asp.net just like C# and Vb.net

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-can-i-use-asp-net-just-like-c-and-vb-net/131425>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [March 9, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-can-i-use-asp-net-just-like-c-and-vb-net/131425 "2008-03-09T22:30:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Junod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Aaron\_Junod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aaron_Junod)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-can-i-use-asp-net-just-like-c-and-vb-net/131425/1 "2008-03-09T22:30:21Z")

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Personally I’m more interested in the deployment story of ruby  
frameworks in IIS. MVC is fantastic, and I’m not going to complain if  
I can use ironruby, but the story that’s really intersting to me is  
deploying a rails or merb app on my companies IIS server without  
having to ask IT to install anything.

That being said, Ivan’s point about extening existing [asp.net](http://asp.net) apps  
with new ironruby code does sound nice. Hanselman explained that an  
[Asp.net](http://Asp.net) app can have both web forms and MVC pages, so using ironruby  
in those scenarios would be nice.

Since the MVC dispatcher uses reflection, I wonder if it would be hard  
to make that happen. Will an IR assembly respond to reflection queries  
the same as a .net assembly, or is there an additional layer of  
indirection that the dlr adds?

Aaron

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Junod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Aaron\_Junod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aaron_Junod)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-can-i-use-asp-net-just-like-c-and-vb-net/131425/2 "2008-03-10T00:41:35Z")

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This is reason why I’m also excited about IronRuby. I’ve looked at a lot  
of  
web frameworks, and Rails (and now to a degree Merb) still come out on  
top.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of larger organisations that require .NET  
solutions because that is the infrastructure they have - they don’t  
really  
care what lanuage it uses, as long as it will run on IIS and talk to  
their  
MSQL server.

For me, this isn’t as much about the language as much as it is about the  
framework.

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