No longer in the Microsoft camp.
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. With schema.org, site owners and developers can learn about structured data and improve how their sites appear in search results on Bing, Google, and Yahoo!. We’re making the work available on schema.org, which aims to be a one stop resource for webmasters looking to add markup to their pages to help search engines better understand their websites.
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-fallen.aspx
And while we’re gloating, enjoying our moment in the Apple vs. Microsoft wars. . .
It is also true that it is well known that Microsoft is 3X better than Apple:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-microsoft-is-3x-better-than-apple-for-customer-support-2011-5
OK, OK, enough, right? Well not so fast, those of us who have remained loyal to Microsoft are allowed to enjoy this little moment.
Some of you are upset that I’m smiling about the trouble Apple is facing?
OK, for you I’m sharing the following link; James Bond, Pretty Girls and Motorcycles:
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/new-james-bond-features-pretty-girl-and-motorcycle.htm
Troops, Thanks for remaining loyal 
Honorable Salute
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.net/voted-best-asp-net-hosting-service-in-2011-codeproject-poll/
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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
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For the time-being that code can also be used for additional sites if you already have one.
Announcing Visual Studio Perf Watson:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ddperf/archive/2011/05/05/help-make-visual-studio-faster.aspx
Download:
*PerfWatson is not supported for Windows XP
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 Gold level in this competency.
To earn a Microsoft Gold Competency, organizations must have the right number of Microsoft Certified Professionals having passed different certification exams related to the competency, submit customer references and demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction by participating in an annual survey.
Every year we continue to invest in achieving the Gold level status because we believe that it is a big differentiator for our business and shows our commitment to stay on top of Microsoft-related technologies.
Takeshi Eto
VP Marketing and Business Development
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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?
The LizaMoon SQL injection inserts the following line into the code on a page (or pages) of your site:
Note that the domain name may be different, but the URL will always point to the ur.php file. You can search your site files and database for ur.php to see if you are affected by this exploit.
You can also check Google’s Safe Browsing advisory to see if any problems have been detected with your site:
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=YourHostedDomainName.com
It is not yet known which application or applications are being targeted by the current exploit, so if you use any third party applications you may want to confirm with the application’s authors that they are not vulnerable to SQL injection.
What the heck is SQL injection anyway?
In a nutshell, SQL injection is a method used to run queries on a site’s database through an insecure web application. Any web application that accepts user input is susceptible to SQL injection if that user input is not “sanitized,” or filtered to remove certain characters. If you do not sanitize or check user input, SQL commands can be run by entering malicious data into a user input field and sending it to the database.
It’s important to stress that SQL injection does not exploit a vulnerability in the SQL server itself, but rather in a web application.
Sanitizing user input will protect you from any SQL injection, so it’s definitely worth double checking your own code, and pestering the authors of third party code to let them know that security is important to you.
http://blog.discountasp.net/lizamoon-mass-sql-injection-continues-to-spread/
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 with that.
At DiscountASP.NET I make use of SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2.
So why all the canvas for Access? Well honestly I get a lot of requests for it.
There are good reasons to not use Access on-line and believe it or not there are a few good reasons. If you want to create something hack prone like a public Shoutbox it’s pretty easy with Access and you have a safe disconnect from your SQL Server data.
Now getting back to the 2007 and 2010 Access .accdb “ACE” drivers…Good news!
The crew at DiscountASP.NET has added the drivers for the 2010 version!
That’s right, as of now you can use the previous Access .mdb format or either of the newer “ACE” .accdb formats.
Note: I wasn’t able to find a way to determine which is 2007 and which is 2010 other than trying it. If you know of a way to get this property from the Access files please leave a note.
One final note…The reason I put a lot of time into this and the DiscountASP.NET crew went out of the way to get it working is the Economy stinks and we know some developers have no choice but to use Access for some things. Nothing to be ashamed of just be careful and watch for a Webcast I’ll be creating where I give you a few tricks on how to prevent anyone from downloading your Access Database.
If you need a good Host and want a great deal; Sign-up with DiscountASP.NET and use the Promo “WISEMX” to get 6 months free. No setup costs. That’s a savings worthy of this Economy. 
All the best,
Mark Wisecarver
http://msftwise.com/contact/
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 Server Hosting at DiscountASP.NET.
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 is a collaboration platform that is at the core of Microsoft’s application lifecycle management solution. With DiscountASP.NET’s hosted TFS solution, Microsoft developers can use familiar Visual Studio development tools to manage source control and track bugs, whether the developer works alone or in a team of hundreds.
TFS Hosting is separate from our web hosting service. So you do not have to be a DiscountASP.NET web hosting customer to get TFS Hosting.
To kick off the launch of TFS Hosting, we are offering our current web hosting customers a FREE 30 Day Trial with No Setup Fee deal for a limited time to try out Team Foundation Server. DiscountASP.NET customers can get more information about this special launch deal through their hosting Control Panel Marketplace.
Takeshi Eto
VP Marketing and Business Development
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