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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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MICROSOFT ASP.NET GAINS MOMENTUM
W/ WEB DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
Microsoft Corp announced the availability of additional tools and resources
for developers building Web applications. The Microsoft ASP.NET Resource Kit
provides a wealth of resources that include tools, tutorials and samples to
help new developers learn ASP.NET. For developers who currently use ASP.NET or
other existing Web technologies, the Resource Kit provides new controls and
components, discounts on ASP.NET training, and great deals on ASP.NET Web
hosting. The ASP.NET Migration Center on MSDN includes the newly released ASP
to ASP.NET and PHP to ASP.NET Migration Guides, which will help developers by
providing documentation, samples and utilities to help them use existing
technology investments while upgrading to ASP.NET.
"We're very excited to see the growing excitement for ASP.NET. The free
tools
and resources provided with the ASP.NET Resource Kit and ASP.NET Migration
Guides will make it even easier for developers to get started with ASP.NET
while leveraging their existing skills and investments," said Scott Guthrie,
product unit manager for ASP.NET at Microsoft. "It's great to see developers
in enterprises of all sizes all over the world benefit from the increased
productivity, reliability and performance of ASP.NET."
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
ASP.NET Resource Kit: Enabling Opportunity For Developers And
Partners
The ASP.NET Resource Kit includes the popular ASP.NET Web Matrix, a free
tool
to build ASP.NET applications, and the ASP.NET Starter Kits, a set of five
prebuilt applications complete with source code that are being used by
thousands of developers to build their Web sites.
Free online training and discounted classroom training from selected
developer-focused Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centers are also
part of the resource kit. In addition, the Information Management Group Inc is
offering $300 off its ASP.NET Online Training courses, and nine hours of
training from Application Developers Training Co with a retail value of $285
are offered free of charge.
Five leading Web hosters in the United States, Canada and Europe are
offering
services for $10 per month, which includes Microsoft SQL Server database
support. Verio Inc, myhosting.com, Internet Fr, DiscountASP.NET and Hostbasket
are the first of many to offer these valuable resources to customers.
Some market-leading control vendor partners are offering free controls to
ASP.NET developers:
- ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET offers a comprehensive suite of Grid,
reporting, charting, data, user-interface and eCommerce ASP.NET (Web Forms)
components for enterprise-style Web-based application development.
- Infragistics WebGrid, part of NetAdvantage 2004, offers an advanced
Grid
with true hierarchical bound and unbound modes, providing a server-side
element with a rich-client look in ASP.NET applications.
- IP*Works! CC ICharge component provides an easy-to-use interface for
communicating with major Internet payment aggregators (payment gateways). As a
true .NET component, ICharge can be easily integrated into ASP.NET
applications and provides a fast and easy solution for businesses that need to
accept credit cards.
- Sax.net Security for ASP.NET enables users to protect their servers
from
automated programs. A Web page that contains the Sax.net Human Verification
Component acts as a virtual gatekeeper that ensures only real people, not
automated programs, fill out forms on a site.
- telerik r.a.d.rotator and r.a.d.spell components include r.a.d.rotator,
a
multipurpose component for DHTML content rotation and personalization. From
stock tickers and news scrollers to product spotlights, weather forecasts,
testimonials, running promotions and banner ads, r.a.d.rotator delivers high
interactivity and user involvement. telerik r.a.d.spell enables developers to
add multilingual spell-checking capabilities to their ASP.NET
applications.
Migrating Applications To The Power Of ASP.NET
Microsoft also launched the MSDN ASP.NET Migration Center, providing
information and tools developers need to move skills and technology
investments to the Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP.NET. The center includes
the previously announced JSP to ASP.NET Migration Guide and the new ASP to
ASP.NET and PHP to ASP.NET Migration Guides jointly developed with ArtinSoft.
These Migration Guides include free utilities to help migrate ASP code and PHP
code to ASP.NET and speed the migration project by automatically converting
portions of code. A migration guide, white papers and code samples also are
provided to assist in project conversion.
Enterprise Customers Betting Business On ASP.NET
Microsoft recently announced that Match.com LP, a top 25 Web site, has
joined
a growing list of new customer implementations built on Microsoft technologies
that are reaching new heights of business value. Match.com used Visual Studio
.NET 2003 and ASP.NET running on Windows Server 2003 to update its
transaction-intensive Web site, enabling it to eliminate close to 60 servers,
double its Web site performance and maximize developer productivity. ASP.NET
has given Match.com the agility and flexibility needed to create a site that
facilitates thousands of connections among its users each year.
HSN, an operating business of IAC/InterActive Corp, is the world's most
widely
recognized television shopping network. When customers come to HSN.com, it's
often to buy products they've seen on a Home Shopping Network television show.
To respond to the growing traffic on the Web site, the team at HSN.com
implemented the site with ASP.NET, Visual C# .NET and SQL Server 2000.
NASDAQ.com is the public Web site of the world's largest electronic
screen-based securities market. Difficult market conditions made it important
for NASDAQ.com to reduce costs, without sacrificing the dependable, high-
performance user experience that makes the site an asset to the NASDAQ stock
market. NASDAQ.com has found that it could meet that challenge, as well as cut
costs, increase dependability and improve service to users, by upgrading its
Web server infrastructure to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating
system. Using Microsoft ASP.NET also contributes to the better performance of
NASDAQ.com. In addition, being able to write ASP.NET reduces development
time.
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