I'm doing an experimental project where I just need to be able to boot off a USB stick and run a .NET console app. The "boot" is important since the machine should be a dedicated appliance for time-sensitive operations.
Ideally this would be something like a Windows PE... but I don't believe it can run the .NET runtime... any suggestions on a way to accomplish this?
Mono is a certainly a possibility, but just haven't used it outside of MonoTouch so have no idea how to accomplish, and if I were able to use the existing .NET code, that's a major bonus. Could probably use offline Silverlight as well.