Newly formed partnership enables the company to offer free beta hosting accounts for Asp.Net 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

MaximumASP, a Microsoft Gold Certified Provider of web hosting and managed IT services, today announced the free ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 hosted beta accounts based on the new MaxESP platform. The company explains that beta users can create a website and test it out in a scalable environment by utilizing an included Dynamic Capacity Upgrade (DCU). Beta accounts are hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5, .NET Framework 4 Beta 2, and come with 1GB Disk Space, 50 MB SQL Server 2008 database, MS Deploy Access and FTP over SSL Access. It adds that interested developers are welcome to sign up at http://aspnet4beta.maximumasp.com/.

The company states that the .NET Framework version 4 Beta 2 includes enhancements for ASP.NET 4 in targeted areas. Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express also include enhancements and new features for improved web development.

It avers that there are many changes in ASP.NET that are coming in .NET 4:

• Support for ASP.NET MVC 2
• Dynamic data
• Improved AJAX and CSS support
• Improved core services
• One click publishing