Microsoft and DiscountASP.NET news

Final blog post, Salutations.

2011-11-02T15:22:00Z

No longer in the Microsoft camp....(read more)

Hell froze over! (Bing, Yahoo and Google unite)

2011-06-02T20:40:00Z

A lot of the ASP.NET Devs I know are divided over the Bing and Google Web tools. Google did this, Bing did that, you know how it rolls… Well look here: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/06/02/bing-google-and-yahoo-unite-to-build-the-web-of-objects.aspx Quote: Well today, we’re pleased to announce Bing is joining forces with Google and Yahoo! to deliver schema.org , a new initiative, to create and support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages...(read more)

Those evil hackers go where the money is…

2011-05-26T11:19:00Z

Are you loyal to Microsoft? Read on: I’ve been evolved in Cyber protection for a long time now. One of the Blogs I follow is Terry Zink’s Cyber Security Blog. The most recent community blessing from Terry is a bold move, but outstanding all the same. It appears, as we all suspected for some time, that hackers attack Microsoft products and technology in a direct relationship to where the community dollars are going. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tzink/archive/2011/05/25/well-well-well-how-the-mighty-have...(read more)

Voted Best ASP.NET Hosting Service in 2011 CodeProject Poll

2011-05-25T00:38:00Z

I am extremely proud to announce that DiscountASP.NET was voted the “ Best ASP.NET Hosting Service “ for 2011 in The Code Project‘s third annual Members Choice Poll – and this is our third year in a row for this win! THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU - to The Code Project community for all your support. The Code Project is one of the largest online community for developers on the web so it is an honor to get this recognition. Takeshi Eto VP Marketing and Business Development http://blog.discountasp...(read more)

Discounted Tiered Pricing for TFS Hosting Available

2011-05-17T11:16:00Z

We’ve been seeing inquiries for TFS hosting from firms with larger development teams. To provide these companies with a more economical SaaS platform for source control, we’ve introduced tiered pricing with price breaks starting from the 6th user and we get the price down to $10/month for the 21st and over users. More information on TFS hosting can be found at http://www.discountasp.net/tfs Takeshi Eto VP Marketing and Business Development http://blog.discountasp.net/discounted-tiered-pricing-for...(read more)

Help Make Visual Studio Faster

2011-05-07T12:22:00Z

Announcing Visual Studio Perf Watson: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ddperf/archive/2011/05/05/help-make-visual-studio-faster.aspx Download: Visual Studio PerfWatson http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fa85b17d-3df2-49b1-bee6-71527ffef441?SRC=Home *PerfWatson is not supported for Windows XP...(read more)

DiscountASP.NET Microsoft Gold Hosting

2011-05-04T23:43:00Z

DiscountASP.NET is proud to announce that it has achieved a Gold Hosting Competency in the revamped Microsoft Partner Network . Microsoft has updated their Partner program and is phasing out their previous Microsoft Gold Certified program and transitioning to a new Microsoft Partner Network program. Under the new Partner Network program, Microsoft has introduced both Silver and Gold levels to each of 29 different competency areas. Hosting is one of the competency specialties and we’ve earned the...(read more)

LizaMoon mass SQL injection continues to spread

2011-04-05T11:40:00Z

LizaMoon mass SQL injection continues to spread On April 4, 2011, in Internet , Technical , by mjp A new large-scale SQL injection exploit has been making the rounds for the past few days, and we are starting to see it show up on a small number of customer sites. If a site visitor has complained that they received a security warning when visiting your site, you may have been affected by the LizaMoon SQL injection. This websense article goes into the details of the exploit. Has your site been compromised...(read more)

Access .accdb format’s

2010-12-16T01:17:00Z

Were you aware there are two versions of the Access .accdb file format? The 2007 “ACE” version and the 2010 “ACE” version both use different drivers. If you’ve tried to use the Access Database .accdb format on DiscountASP.NET servers and it failed you must have been using a Data file created with the 2010 version of Access. OK, you’re shouting at me right now for even suggesting Access Databases for Shared hosting, right? I agree, SQL Server is the way to go and I personally help a lot of developers...(read more)

Introducing Team Foundation Server Hosting at DiscountASP.NET

2010-10-13T23:32:00Z

Since the day we started DiscountASP.NET our mission has been to offer innovative and cutting-edge hosting solutions for the ASP.NET developer. We have been carrying out this mission with our award winning Windows web hosting services for the past 7 years. Today we are expanding beyond web site hosting and introducing a new Software-as-a-Service solution for source code version control and bug/issue tracking that integrates with Visual Studio. I am extremely excited to announce - Team Foundation...(read more)

Office Live add-in 1.5 cannot be installed

2010-05-26T21:19:38Z

Having trouble with a recent Windows Update that failed to install the Office Live add-in 1.5? This has been driving me nuts on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit system for three days. Windows Update would fail, click the “Try again” button and…fail So like I good boy I used http://www.bing.com and have been searching for resolutions. Success! The Microsoft Social forums. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeinstall/thread/4c62e615-a3e5-4cf9-ae6a-5fd870dfb0bc http://support.microsoft...(read more)

Maybe VS2010 needs Repairing

2010-04-29T01:28:00Z

OK..So John Papa, Nasir Aziz and myself are trying to help Victor Gaudioso figure out why he can’t see the ADO.NET Entity Data Model template in Visual Studio 2010. At first I thought maybe he was using the Pro version and this was one of those oddities. (After all I’m using the Ultimate version and I also see this template in the Express version.) Nope..Vic was also using VS2010 Ultimate. Believe me Vic is a Silverlight and WPF genius and knows his way around in VS. He was working with the latest...(read more)

DiscountASP.NET adds Web Application Gallery

2010-04-24T00:26:24Z

Apr 23, 2010 What if you could install a blog, CMS, image gallery, wiki or other application with a few simple entries and one click of your mouse? Now you can! DiscountASP.NET is happy to announce that we are now providing access to "one-click" installation of many popular applications in Control Panel . The applications are part of Microsoft's Web Application Gallery and are tested for compatibility with our platform before they are made available to you. You can glean more details...(read more)

Fix: Outlook 2010 Update Progress

2010-04-22T22:54:00Z

Hey hey hey…Microsoft Office was released today on MSDN! What I’m posting here is not intended as a complaint. The updates to Office are awesome! I did however run into a few problems upgrading today. First of all, if you are going to install the 64bit Office 2010 please note that you can’t install the 64bit Office 2010 if you are trying to install on a machine that is running 32bit Office 2007. You will need to uninstall your 32bit Office 2007 or install the 32bit Office 2010 instead of the 64bit...(read more)

DiscountASP.NET Launches SQL Server Profiling as a Service

2010-03-06T23:53:00Z

DiscountASP.NET announces enhancing our SQL Server hosting with the launch of SQL Server Profiling as a service. SQL Profiler is a powerful tool that allows the application and database developer to troubleshoot general SQL locking problems, performance issues, and perform database tuning. With our SQL Profiling as a Service customers can schedule a database trace at a specific time of their choosing and offers a new way to help our customers troubleshoot. For more information, visit: http://www...(read more)