DiscountASP.NET Launches .NET Framework 3.0 Web Hosting

HostReview.com
Tuesday, April 10, 2007; 02:09 AM

Award-winning innovative Windows Hosting leader DiscountASP.NET has launched .NET Framework 3.0 Web hosting. New customers that signup for the base hosting annual plan can receive 3 months of free .NET Framework 3.0 hosting.

All DiscountASP.NET production Web servers are now installed with .NET Framework 3.0 side-by-side with .NET Framework 2.0 and the .NET Framework 1.1. The .NET 3.0 hosting platform is available to all DiscountASP.NET ASP.NET hosting customers at no additional cost.

"We are pleased to see hosts like, DiscountASP.NET, push innovation forward by offering .NET Framework 3.0 hosting," said Thom Robbins, Director of .NET Platform Product Management, Microsoft. "DiscountASP.NET's hosting lets developers easily build Web applications with enhanced user experiences and more secure communications."

.NET Framework 3.0 combines ASP.NET 2.0 and the .NET Framework 2.0 APIs with four new technologies for building a broader range of applications, which include Windows CardSpace , Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

"DiscountASP.NET is committed to Microsoft .NET technology and being an early adopter of new .NET technology, like .NET Framework 3 hosting." said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing, DiscountASP.NET. "We are very excited to provide this new framework to our customers and look forward to the next generation web applications that they will build."