Microsoft ASP.NET 2 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 2.0, formerly code-named "Whidbey."

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What is ASP.NET 2?

ASP.NET 2.0 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 code you may have will work as expected in ASP.NET 2.0. However, a simple version switch doesn't guarantee that you will make the most out of the ASP.NET 2.0 framework. Taking advantage of the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 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.NET 2

  ASP delivers several primary benefits:
 
  • Master Pages - This new feature provides the ability to define common structure and interface elements for your site, such as a page header, footer, or navigation bar, in a common location called a "master page", to be shared by many different pages within your site.
  • Navigation Control - Provide a common UI for navigating between pages in your site, such as tree views, menus, and breadcrumbs.
  • Themes and Skins - This allows for easy customization of a site's look-and-feel. You can define style information in a common location called a "theme" and apply that style information globally to pages or controls in a site.
  • New Server Control - ASP.NET 2.0 includes 45 new server controls that enable powerful declarative support for data access, login security, wizard navigation, image generation, menus, tree views, portals and more. Many of the new controls take advantage of core application services in ASP.NET for scenarios like data access, membership and roles, and personalization.
  • Data Control - Data access can be accomplished completely declaratively (without code) using the new data-bound and data source controls. There are new data source controls to represent different data backends such as SQL, business objects, and XML, and there are new data-bound controls for rendering common UI for data, such as grids, details, and data-bound forms.
  • Visual Studio 2005 Support - ASP.NET 2 has been developed to work best with Visual Studio 2005 Support and we at ASPHostPortal are very happy to announce that we support all your sites published with Visual Studio 2005. You can also use Visual Web Developer Express Edition, Visual Studio 2003 or any Frontpage Enabled tools to publish your site and we are 100% support all that
  • Faster Performance and Compilation Time - In ASP.NET 2, Microsoft has improved the performance and compilation time for your site. So , it would be the best choice for you to upgrade your existing ASP.NET 1 site to version 2 and experience the faster loading and compilation time for your site. Your users will benefit from faster loading and better code structure in ASP.NET 2 technology.

ASP.NET 2 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.