Pasadena, California – (The Hosting News) – April 6, 2009 – Web hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has upgraded and extended its free Sandbox Hosting for developers, to allow for use of the next-generation web application utilizing Microsoft Web Deployment Tool RC1.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”Since a new update to the Web Deployment Tool was recently introduced, we wanted to extend the sandbox hosting program to give developers the chance to test publishing to a live hosting environment and provide feedback based on their end-to-end application deployment experience using the new release. It’s a great opportunity for developers to participate in improving the application deployment experience.”

The solution was unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008, designed to allow developers to get early experience with and provide feedback on next-generation web application packaging and deployment scenarios. DiscountASP.NET extended the free Microsoft Web Deployment Tool sandbox hosting program until June 30, 2009 with the latest Web Deployment Tool RC1.

The free Web Deployment Tool sandbox hosting program is a limited program offered as an open beta on a first come first serve basis. The beta hosting account comes with 50 MB of disk space and 50 MB of SQL Server 2008 database space.

DiscountASP.NET provides Microsoft Windows hosting, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, DiscountASP.NET is one of the first hosting providers to offer Windows Server 2008 hosting, SQL Server 2008 hosting and MVC hosting. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL Server technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting.

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