title: Is it possible to deploy an ASP.NET application as desktop application (with server component)
body: <p>Question: I created an ASP.NET web application.</p>
  
  <p>Now it originally was meant for deployment on a webserver.<br />
  That is working, so, so far so good.</p>
  
  <p>My question now is: Is it possible to deploy it as a desktop-application, too?</p>
  
  <p>That is to say the installer installs some kind of server, plus the web application, configures the server to run this application on a localhost URL, and then creates a link in the start menu/desktop, where it opens that url (website, the application) on localhost in a web browser?</p>
  
  <p>I think it should be possible, though the server wouldn't be IIS, because this is a windows component which can't be separately installed. </p>
  
  <p>Is there anything like this already out there ? 
  The nonplusultra would be that it only starts the server when you click on the shortcut.</p>