At EDT Hosting, we are all about your business hosting needs. We can support all of your hosting requirements, whether it is just a basic vanilla web site, all the way to .net 2.0 hosting and SQL Server hosting, we’ve got you covered.But what is asp.net hosting all about you ask? Well, first we have to explain a little about what .net is. And to be exact, it is ASP.net. ASP stands for Active Server Pages. ASP.Net allows you to use big-time programming languages like C++ or C# (yes, like the musical note, C-Sharp), or Visual Basic .NET to build full-featured web applications easily. Unfortunately, as we know, the Internet still has some serious bandwidth limitations. Additionally, not everyone runs the same web browser.

These issues make HTML the mark-up language of choice for the World Wide Web. Because of this, most web pages aren’t going to look as fancy or amazing as a full-fledged application running under Windows. However, if we use a little skill and lots of creative flair, we can make some rather amazing web applications with ASP.NET. ASP.NET processes all of the code on the server, just like a regular application does. When the code has been processed fully, the server returns the resultant HTML to the client. If the client supports JavaScript(from Sun MicroSystems), then the server will use it to make the client’s browser experience quicker and easier.

What do you get when you use asp.net hosting? You get the .Net 3.5 Framework, first of all. 3.5 builds on the new features found in 3.0 and brings a new version of ASP.NET to center stage. Applied innovations fully support ASP.NET 3.5 hosting, as well as earlier versions of the .NET Framework. Among the new technologies introduced in 3.5 are:

• Language Integrated Query Hosting(LINQ): Deep integration of LINQ and data awareness. Write code written in LINQ-enabled languages to mine your data more effectively.
  
  
• Tighter ASP.NET Ajax integration: ASP.NET Ajax allows you to create more efficient, interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across the most popular browsers.
  
  
• Extends from .NET Framework 3.0: New Web protocol support for building WCF services and several new WS-* standards. Full tooling support for Visual Studio 2008 fopr WF, WCF,and WPF.

What does asp.net hosting mean to ASP developers? For developers, the impact of the many new features found in asp.net largely depends on your development background. Classical ASP required considerable HTML knowledge and manual coding even for relatively simple tasks like generating a table or a form. ASP.NET abstracts most of these idiosyncrasies and encapsulates them in automatically generated code or core class libraries. Quit worrying about HTML tags, POST, GET and query strings. Just focus on developing code that implements your business logic elegantly. No more spaghetti code, you can quit intermixing your HTML with scripting code. Now you no longer have to manually implement many of those old redundant details, ASP.NET takes care of it for you. One example is using object-oriented features to easily re-use code between pages.We could go into all the features of .net 2.0 hosting, but it would take too long. SO just surf on over to www.edthosting.com and see what we have to offer.