asp.net 4.5 has been released for some time since from the last september. From the official documents and various webmasters' feedback, it's ready for production server deployment. Because of the great improvements and new features with this version, .net 4.5 will bring revolutional effect to web design and the web hosting industry. It's possible to see the Microsoft team will integrate this package directly in the next windows server generation.
What's new in Asp.net 4.5?
The core features from asp.net 4.5 are mainly the following
- Support for HTML5 code snipes
- Asynchronously Reading and Writing HTTP Requests and Responses
- Improvements to HttpRequest handling
- Asynchronously flushing a response
- Support for await and Task-Based Asynchronous Modules and Handlers
- Asynchronous HTTP modules
- Asynchronous HTTP handlers
- New ASP.NET Request Validation Features
- Deferred ("lazy") request validation
- Support for unvalidated requests
- Anti-XSS Library
- Support for WebSockets Protocol
- Bundling and Minification
- Performance Improvements for Web Hosting
The outstanding feature would be the support of HTML5 form types and fast performance. When you create a new Website using ASP.NET or maintaining an existing project, you will be able to use the HTML5 & CSS3 technologies via Visual Studio.
How does Asp.net 4.5 improve the performance? By reducing the number of HTTP requests that go between the client and server. you can bundle and minify your Jscripts and CSS behind. The result is it will generate a single http request for those js and css instead of creating multiple requests for each one.
Further resource about Asp.net 4.5
- Asp.net 4.5 official downloading
- Core features from asp.net 4.5 and explanation
- Asp.net 4.5 developer preview
- Asp.net 4.5 Bundling and Minification documentation
Who can offer quality Asp.net 4.5 hosting service?
Unfortunately, asp.net 4.5 is not yet supported from most shared asp.net hosting plans because it's too new to be familiar with by web hosting companies. Just the same story of Asp.net MVC 4.0. If we would like to deploy .net 4.5 website on live server, we either need a vps or dedicated server plan. Unless we have that budget, we have to wait some more time till it's ready for shared hosting plans.
Any affordable and good windows vps hosting to suggest? Depends what you will use the vps server for, If you just like to test out the latest programming technologies, I highly recommend to setup test server on local computer which would be zero cost. If we're going to launch live applications for long term purpose, Arvixe and Accuwebhosting can be considered for quality service. More details about windows vps server comparison can be found on our previous top 5 vps hosting article.
