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Why is it whenever I use System.Web.Hosting.ApplicationHost.CreateApplicationHost it always returns System.IO.FileNotFoundException?

I'm trying to host asp.net application and asp web services without IIS. I found the cassini web project and other tutorial around the net. All of them are using the CreateApplicationHost from System.Web.Hosting.ApplicationHost namespace. I copied some code from those project and build it properly but whenever I tried to run it on debug I always get the file not found error. I think it is caused by the Virtual Directory path but don't know how to fix it.


public class MySimpleHost : MarshalByRefObject
    {
        public void ProcessRequest(string page, string query, TextWriter tw)
        {
            SimpleWorkerRequest swr = 
                new SimpleWorkerRequest(page, query, tw);
            HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest(swr);
        }
    }
 
 
namespace SimpleHost
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string dir = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
 
            MySimpleHost msh = (MySimpleHost)ApplicationHost.CreateApplicationHost(
                typeof(MySimpleHost), "/", dir);
         }
    }

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Its looking for a file containing MyHost class. It is included with the main program itself (UsingAspRuntime.exe). The ASP.NET runtime looks for all assembalies in the bin directory. So be sure that the bin directory has been created and it contain the UsingAspRuntime.exe. The build script does this automatically.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/usingaspruntime.aspx

Another thread about it
http://forums.asp.net/rss.aspx?ForumID=67&PostID=771470
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I compiled the projects Dhaest mention above properly unfortunately I encountered the same problem  the System.io.filenotfound exception. What I wanted to do is to make my own hosting application rather than using the code on code project. I want to make it from scratch for me to understand it well.

I looked on my bin folder and the exe file is already created for me after my build. Can anyone point me out what am I missing?
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