Hooking Drupal to ASP.net

Jonny,

Yes. We have done this before. Best route to go is either XML-RPC, SOAP (I def. prefer NuSOAP by far), and lastly COM/DCOM objects. The COM is a little slow on the creation of it, but runs fast and fine after the initialization phase. We found it ran just normally and w/o delay under IIS though, a a slighty delay (few ms) under Apache.

We have also created a few functions and classes and compiled the PHP into CLR using phalanger. If you're going .NET/PHP, that's prob. going to give you the most low-level performance.

So there are a few options that you have.

We have a client with existing ASP.net apps that are to be integrated into the new Drupal-based portal. Integration should be at the presentation level only, preferably each such ASP.net app to show as part of a Drupal page's content area.

Any suggestions as how to do it simple and clean?

Thanks!

your best bet will be to look into a framework called "phlanger". Phlanger adds php to the ISAPI interface for IIS, allowing you to use PHP and ASP.NET side by side. Furthermore, it also adds project classes and small intellisense support for PHP within visual studio.

You can also reference PHP classes from within C# or vb.net, or vice versa. Its quite experimental, but its been around since 2005, and recently has recieved microsoft's blessing so I'd say its fairly stable.