Feb, 2010 : DiscountASP.NET Upgrades ASP.NET 4.0 Hosting Sandbox

📅 February 16, 2010 - The company upgrades its ASP.NET 4 hosting sandbox with .NET Framework 4 RC; extends the free hosting program.

DiscountASP.NET, a Windows hosting provider, in partnership with Microsoft announces updating its ASP.NET 4 hosting sandbox with the recently released .NET Framework 4 RC. The company says that the free hosting sandbox program is extended until mid-April 2010 to allow Visual Studio 2010 RC users to experience 1-Click publishing, the next-generation in web application packaging and deployment.

It explains that the free sandbox hosting program is a limited program offered as an open beta for developers on a first come first serve basis. The.NET 4 beta hosting account comes with 50 MB of disk space and 50 MB of SQL Server 2008 database space. The program ends April 16, 2010. The company adds that interested developers are welcome to sign up at http://labs.discountasp.net while space is available.

"With the release of the new RC versions of .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010, we wanted to make sure developers get early experience with the newest update and have the opportunity to provide Microsoft with feedback on their experience," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "The official launch of ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 is coming soon and we hope that the beta program will help the developer community get a jump start with ASP.NET 4."