Hi
It seems to be the season of the beta download and beta testing again. Dot net developers have got tons of things to play with. Four most important products in their different level of Beta. Wow! Here is the list and the links to download
First we have IIS 7 in Beta 3 for download. Yes it also support the go live license. This means that you can use it in the production environment also. And is its stable? Well Microsoft.com is already deployed on this.
Some of the new features of IIS 7 are
- Web Farm Shared Configuration
- Delegated Remote Administration
- Automatic Application Pool Isolation
- Built-in FastCGI Support for PHP and other extensions
- New FTP Server
Here is a link to some of the free hoster for IIS 7
http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=791
The next beta is the beta 1 of next generation of Visual studio. Yes you can also download orcas as beta 1. You can download VPC images with the software pre-installed. Here is the link for download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=36B6609E-6F3D-40F4-8C7D-AD111679D8DC&displaylang=en
The next big stuff to play with in beta is the dot net framework 3.5. Some of the new features form frame work 3.0 are
- Deep integration of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and data awareness
- ASP.NET AJAX for quickly creating more efficient, more interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers
- New web protocol support for building WCF services including AJAX, JSON, REST, POX, RSS, ATOM and several new WS-* standards
- Full tooling support for WF, WCF and WPF including the new workflow-enabled services technology
Here is the link to download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3715e6f-e123-428b-8a0f-028afb9e0322&DisplayLang=en
And last but not the least is the new Silverlight Beta 1.0. For those of you who still don’t know, WPFE has been renamed to silverlight. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
Thanks
Vikram