MICROSOFT ASP.NET3.5 WEB HOSTING

Microsoft ASP.NET is today the most powerful and fastest growing platform for Web development. ASP.NET powers some of world’s largest Web sites and most demanding applications. Part of the Microsoft .NET platform, ASP.NET provides component-based, extensible, and easy-to-use tools to build, deploy, and run Web applications that can target any browser and any mobile device. Introduced more than two years ago, ASP.NET has since been adopted by thousands of developers along the way. Now it is ready for its first major upgrade—ASP.NET 3.5.

ASP.NET 3.5 is 100-percent backwards compatible with the current version of ASP.NET and will provide a smooth migration experience when it is released. Backwards compatibility surely means that all ASP.NET 1.x and ASP.NET 2.0 code you may have will work as expected in ASP.NET 3.5. However, a simple version switch doesn’t guarantee that you will make the most out of the ASP.NET 3.5 framework. Taking advantage of the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 ensures more compact code, a richer set of services and capabilities, a more effective and appealing user interface, a more elegant and easy-to-maintain application architecture, and a powerful set of administration tools.

FEATURES OF ASP.NET3.5 WEB HOSTING

- ASP.NET AJAX – ASP.NET AJAX is now built into the platform and makes the complicated task of building cross-platform, standards based AJAX applications easy.

- New ListView and DataPager Controls – The new ListView control gives you unprecedented flexibility in how you display your data, by allowing you to have complete control over the HTML markup generated. ListView‘s template approach to representing data is designed to easily work with CSS styles, which comes in handy with the new Visual Studio 2008 designer view. In addition, you can use the DataPager control to handle all the work of allowing your users to page through large numbers of records.

- LINQ and other .NET Framework 3.5 Improvements – .NET 3.5 includes Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQ makes your relational data queries a first-class language construct in C# and Visual Basic, complete with compiler and Intellisense support. For Web applications, the ASP.NET LinqDataSource control allows you to easily use LINQ to filter, order and group data that can then be bound to any of the data visualization controls. In addition, all the other improvements to .NET Framework 3.5, including the new HashSet collection, DateTime offset support, diagnostics, garbage collection, better thread lock support, and more.

- Visual Studio 2008 Support – Full support in Visual Studio 2008 for Windows Communications Foundation, and Windows Presentation Foundation, and including the new workflow-enabled services technology.

- WCF Support for RSS, JSON, POX and Partial Trust – With .NET 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) now supports building Web services that can be exposed using any number of the Internet standard protocols, such as SOAP, RSS, JSON, POX and more. WCF makes it easy to create your endpoints, and now, supports building Web services in partial-trust situations like a typical shared-hosting environment.

ASP.NET3.5 HOSTING IMPLEMENTATION

- Platform – Active Server Pages will run on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Peer Web Services, and Microsoft Windows® 95 with Personal Web Server. Windows NT 3.51 is NOT supported. Windows NT 4.0 on MIPS is also not supported by ASP.

- Security – Active Server Pages is a component of Internet Information Server, and thus uses Windows NT Security. ASP files can be easily restricted to just certain users through secure Windows NT authentication, basic Web authentication, or client-side certificates. For additional security, all client-to-server communications can be secured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
- Integrity – An Active Server Pages application can integrate with any ODBC-compliant databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and DB2 databases. Any OLE 2 application, such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Excel, can also be scripted to access or process information. You can also write components to access online data feeds and legacy mainframes.
- Emphasis on Security – Emphasis placed on validation, encryption, “bug” tracking and potential threats.

- ISAPI Application – ISAPI applications require all of the programming and layout to be contained in a .dll file written in C++. ISAPI applications are thus more difficult to create and maintain. With ASP files, an HTML writer can script an external component and format the output. ASP separates the layout and design from the business logic.

ASP.NET3.5 WEB HOSTING WITH ASPHOSTCENTRAL

ASPHostCentral proudly presents the opportunity to everyone to embrace the latest technology from Microsoft. As our promise to always deliver the top-notch, cutting-edge technology to everyone, we always keep our system up-to-date with the newest and latest technology.

New Customer – You can start from as low as $4.99 to start embracing the ASP.NET AJAX technology from Microsoft. If you do not have a domain name, please do not worry as we will give you one FREE domain name (worth $14.99/year) if you register for any of our hosting plans for 12 months service(*). We will do our best to help you create your first web presence on the internet and we will continuously support the growth of your business.

Existing Customer – For all existing customers, the ASP.NET AJAX is already pre-installed on the server and you can start using it directly.

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