Discover IT now supports ASP.Net applications with its custom Windows 2003 hosting plans
ASP.Net is Microsoft's powerful new server-side technology for creating dynamic Web applications. Discover IT has installed the ".Net Framework" on its Windows 2003 servers and is now ready to host your ASP.Net applications.
For Developers
Easy Programming. ASP.Net makes building Web applications much easier. It supports development in a variety of programming languages, including C#, VB.Net and Jscript.Net. ASP.Net server controls enable an HTML-style of declarative programming that lets you build pages with far less code than with classic ASP. Connecting to databases, displaying data, validating user input, and uploading files are all made much easier. ASP.Net pages automatically adapt to work in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera, and with different browser devices such as desktops, PDA's and WAP phones.
Rich Class Framework. Application features that used to be hard to implement, or required a 3rd-party component, can now be added with
just a few lines of code using the ".Net Framework". The ".Net Framework" offers over 4500 classes that encapsulate rich functionality like XML, data access, file upload, regular expressions, image generation, performance monitoring and logging, transactions, message queuing, SMTP mail, and much more.
Improved Performance and Scalability
Compiled Execution. ASP.Net is much faster than classic ASP, while preserving the simple "save" update model of ASP. No explicit compile step is required. ASP.Net will automatically detect changes,
dynamically compile the files if needed, and store the compiled results to reuse for subsequent requests.
Enhanced Reliability
Memory Leak, DeadLock and Crash Protection. ASP.Net automatically detects and recovers from errors like deadlocks and memory leaks to ensure your application is always available to your users.
Easy Deployment
Easy Application Deployment. ASP.Net dramatically simplifies
installation of your application. With ASP.Net, you can deploy an
entire application as easily as an HTML page: just copy it to the
server. There is no need to register any components.
Dynamic Update of Running Application. ASP.Net now lets you update compiled components without restarting the Web server. With ASP.Net, you simply copy the component over the existing DLL. ASP.Net will automatically detect the change and start using the new code.
Easy Migration Path. You don't have to migrate your existing applications to start using ASP.Net. It runs on the IIS Web
server side-by-side with classic ASP on Windows 2003 platforms. Your
existing ASP applications continue to be processed by ASP.DLL, while
new ASP.Net pages are processed by the new ASP.Net engine. You can
migrate application by application, or just single pages.
New Application Model
XML Web Services. XML Web Services allows applications to
communicate and share data over the Internet, regardless of
operating system or programming language. ASP.Net makes exposing and
calling XML Web Services simple.
