ASP.NET 4 web hosting on Windows 2008

ASP.NET 4 web hosting on Windows 2008

Microsoft ASP.NET is a programming framework built on the common language and can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications with a minimum of coding.

The first versions of ASP.NET offered several important advantages over previous Web development models. The last release – ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 include lots of new features and improvements that enable you to easily build, deploy and manage great Web sites and applications.

ASP.NET 4 Enhancements

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides the following new features and improvements:

Improvements in Common Language Runtime and Base Class Library
- Performance improvement including better multicore support, background garbage collection, and profiler attach on server.
- New memory mapped file and numeric types.
- Easier debugging including dump debugging, Watson minidumps, mixed mode debugging for 64 bit and code contracts.
- For a comprehensive list of enhancements to CLR and BCL go here.
Improvements in Data Access and Modeling
- The Entity Framework enables developers to program against relational databases using .NET objects and Language Integrated Query (LINQ). It has many new features, including persistence ignorance and POCO support, foreign key associations, lazy loading, test-driven development support, functions in the model, and new LINQ operators. Additional features include better n-tier support with self-tracking entities, customizable code generation using T4 templates, model first development, an improved designer experience, better performance, and pluralization of entity sets.
- WCF Data Services is a component of the .NET Framework that enables you to create REST-based services and applications that use the Open Data Protocol (OData) to expose and consume data over the Web. WCF Data Services has many new features, including enhanced BLOB support, data binding, row count, feed customization, projections, and request pipeline improvements. Built-in integration with Microsoft Office 2010 now makes it possible to expose Microsoft Office SharePoint Server data as an OData feed and access that data feed by using the WCF Data Services client library. For more information go here
Enhancements to ASP NET web host
- More control over HTML, element IDs and custom CSS that make it much easier to create standards-compliant and SEO-friendly web forms.
- New dynamic data features including new query filters, entity templates, richer support for Entity Framework 4, and validation and templating features that can be easily applied to existing web forms.
- Web forms support for new AJAX library improvements including built-in support for content delivery networks (CDNs).
- For a comprehensive list of enhancements to ASP.NET go here.
Improvements in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
- Added support for Windows 7 multi-touch, ribbon controls, and taskbar extensibility features.
- Added support for Surface 2.0 SDK.
- New line-of-business controls including charting control, smart edit, data grid, and others that improve the experience for developers who build data centric applications.
- Improvements in performance and scalability.
- Visual improvements in text clarity, layout pixel snapping, localization, and interoperability.
- For a comprehensive list of enhancements to WPF go here.
Improvements to Windows Workflow (WF)
-These include an improved activity programming model, an improved designer experience, a new flowchart modeling style, an expanded activity palette, workflow-rules integration, and new message correlation features. The .NET Framework 4 also offers significant performance gains for WF-based workflows.
Improvements to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) such as support for WCF Workflow Services enabling workflow programs with messaging activities, correlation support. Additionally, .NET Framework 4 provides new WCF features such as service discovery, routing service, REST support, diagnostics, and performance.
Innovative new parallel-programming features such as parallel loop support, Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), and coordination data structures which let developers harness the power of multi-core processors
ASP.NET Web Hosting

Intermedia provides ASP.NET web hosting on Windows 2008/IIS7 Server with .NET support. As the software web server MS Internet Informational Server is used with Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5. For dynamic pages creation Intermedia provides .NET web hosting services, ASP web hosting services, MSSQL hosting services. Choice of ASP.NET web hosting is defined by a choice of Microsoft development technologies: IIS, Windows server, MSSQL server as a platform of web applications development. Using ASP.NET web hosting allows you to work with high-efficiency MSSQL Server databases.

ASP.NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, and ASP.NET 2.0 are still available on our Windows 2008 Hosting and Windows 2003 Hosting platform. ASP.NET 1.1 Hosting is only available on our Windows 2003 Hosting platform.