_NET Framework 4_5

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09 October 2012

HostASP web hosting offers ASP.NET 4.5 hosting

Posted in Announcements

ASP.NET 4.5 Web hosting

HostASP now officially supports ASP.NET 4.5 web hosting.  You can now take advantage of new features with Visual Studio 2012 IDE. ASP.NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade of 4.0 Framework which addresses lot of improvements including security enhancements. 

Some of new features and enhancements of ASP.NET 4.5  are highligted as follows

  • ASP.NET 4.5 supports Asynchronous programming in reading and writing HTTP requests and responses without the help of OS threads. Support for new key words await and async.
  • ASP.NET 4.5 provides ways to read invalidated request data so that it allows users to pass markup for selected fields or pages.
  • ASP.NET 4.5 support for MVC 4
  • ASP.NET 4.5 support for web socket protocols.
  • ASP.NET 4.5 uses bundling and minification of client scripts
  • ASP.NET 4.5 supports two-way data-binding expressions in Web Forms data controls.
  • ASP.NET 4.5 supports new syntax that lets you encode HTML output in page markup
  • ASP.NET 4.5 supports for HTML5 form types, Web Pages 2
  • ASP.NET 4.5 with improved paging of GridView control and more

23 September 2012

.NET Framework 4.5 Installation

Posted in Maintenance, Announcements

.NET Framework 4.5

We will be installing .NET Framework 4.5 on our servers in next few days starting from 10/03 - 10/06. .NET framework 4.5 Installation is an In-Place upgrade of 4.0 to 4.5 and NOT a side-by-side installation, it actually replaces entire .NET Framework 4.0 all its assemblies with 4.5 .NET Framework version DLLs.

The websites on our servers that are currently targeted to run on 4.0 should just work fine on 4.5 Framework.  To migrate your websites to .NET 4.5 Framework all you would do is - open up your projects in Visual studio and target its platform to .NET 4.5 Framework.  

If you need any further information or support, you could contact us through tickets or Microsoft .Net forums. We will be to help you working with ASP.NET 4.5 Team of Microsoft to resolve any of issues if faced w.r.t 4.5 upgrade. Please do refer to below links for more information about .NET Framework version 4.5 installation and migration.