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My requirement is to have a fully functioning site that can be demonstrated and handed out on a USB drive with minimal installation prerequisites (on managed corporate machines running Windows XP .NET 3.5). The site will then be deployed to a production server upon approval. This process will happen many times with many different clients. &nbsp;It is a requirement that the self-contained site can persist data; preferably in a local database, but I could use a xml provider or similar instead.<br />
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I plan to investigate a custom implementation of the Cassini Personal Web Server to run an ajax site that will make server calls to persist data in SQL Server Compact Edition. I am open to the underlying server technology and I am curious if there are other solutions besides Cassini.
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My requirement is to have a fully functioning site that can be demonstrated and handed out on a USB drive with minimal installation prerequisites (on managed corporate machines running Windows XP .NET 3.5). The site will then be deployed to a production server upon approval. This process will happen many times with many different clients.  It is a requirement that the self-contained site can persist data; preferably in a local database, but I could use a xml provider or similar instead.

I plan to investigate a custom implementation of the Cassini Personal Web Server to run an ajax site that will make server calls to persist data in SQL Server Compact Edition. I am open to the underlying server technology and I am curious if there are other solutions besides Cassini.

How to run a dynamic, data-driven website from USB drive (without a server).

Web development includes all aspects of presenting content on intranets and the Internet, including delivery development, protocols, languages and standards, server software, browser clients, databases and multimedia generation.

Web Development

A web server refers to the software that helps to deliver web content that can be accessed either through the Internet or through an intranet. The primary function of a web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to clients. The communication between client and server takes place using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The most common use of web servers is to host websites, but there are other uses such as gaming, data storage, running enterprise applications, handling email, FTP, etc.