The IIS Hostable Web Core feature allows you to write your own custom applications that can host core IIS functionality on their own.

[]Why, Marty—whatever has happened to your head? Lord, it has shrunk to nothing—it looks like an apple upon a gate-post! / Her heart swelled and she could not speak. At length she managed to groan, looking on the ground, I've made myself ugly—and hateful—that's what I've done! / No, no, he answered, You've only cut your hair—I see now. / Then why must you needs say that about apples and gate-posts?

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.

Tho' it is evident by our histories, that in many cities in Holland great quantities of manufactures were made, when all the European traffick and navigation was mostly driven by the Easterlings and Hans-Towns, and before fishing, traffick, and freighting of ships were settled in these provinces […]