Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 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 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.NET 3.5

  ASP.NET3.5 delivers several primary benefits:
 
  • ASP.NET AJAX - 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.
  • New ListView and DataPager Controls - Provide a common UI for navigating between pages in your site, such as tree views, menus, and breadcrumbs.
  • LINQ and other .NET Framework 3.5 Improvements - 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.
  • 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.NET 3.5 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.