This article has been guest blogged by Tatiana Kochedykova.
To run an existing ASP.NET app on Unix/Linux, you can proceed in different ways: rewrite it from scratch using the new ASP.NET 5 framework or fall back upon Mono, a free and open source .NET Framework-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.
Introduction
When we decided to run our ASP.NET application (ONLYOFFICE Community Server) on Linux, we had a choice between rewriting it from scratch or using Mono. We’ve chosen the Mono project.
The first attempt to make our application cross-platform was taken 4 years ago, but it failed. At that time Mono had a few limitations in porting an ASP.NET application from Windows to Unix. In particular, there was incomplete support for WCF (it lacked some critical features) and bugs in ASP.NET MVC. However, the Mono project has since then been actively developed by its community, thereby achieving the full support for .NET 4.0 and 4.5 features. That allowed us to restart our work in spring 2013. But even so, we faced many challenges for the first six months to make it work. We encountered problems whose description was not yet provided, and we solved them through trial and error approach
In this article, we’d like to share our experience, describe the issues we faced in the process – their reasons and solutions.
Read the rest here: http://www.devcurry.com/2016/01/porting-aspnet-application-to-unix.html
Brian By Experience 