NET application development is one of the main expertise of Silver Communication. It is supported by a dedicated team and has completed several successful projects in .NET application development.

Microsoft has designed ASP+ to run along side regular ASP, so there's no need to worry that your existing applications will break with the next release of Internet Information Services (IIS). ASP+ files comes with a new extension (aspx), so you can easily separate the old from the new.

ASP+ has the benefit of access to compiled languages, such as Visual Basic, C++, and even MS's new C#. You can now program Active Server Pages in any language you wish, as all code is now compiled when requested. Even VBScript and Javascript are now compiled.

We are all aware of the problems with COM when using typical ASP. Registering components, restarting servers, blech, what a pain. Well, now with the Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS), you don't have to worry about this anymore. You can simply copy the source files for your component, paste them wherever you want, and it will work. No DLL registering, no headaches.

With the NGWS framework, all metabase and configuration information is stored in XML files. This means you no longer have to fool around with IIS to change the settings. In fact, you could change the XML file from anywhere, and ftp the changes to the server. No need for any type of remote PC control.

ASP+ introduces the ability for forms to be linked to the server, so you can process requests more easily. Web controls offer similar functionality, and provide a web developer with additional functionality versus the regular HTML controls.

ASP+ allows objects and output to be cached, which should increase speed, since subsequent users won't have to make more requests to the server. The ASP+ caching system is very advanced, allowing you to specify what needs to be cached and what doesn't, and when to recall the cached information versus performing a new request.

ASP+ has some great scalability features built into it, including maintaining session state across servers, and multi-processor balancing. The ASP+ runtime also monitors processes, so when one goes haywire, ASP+ will shut it down and restart it for you, and send old requests to the new process.

ASP+ provides many new features, and improves on some existing ones. While some of these initiatives sound great, they are not without problems. Without further ado, let's get into the drawbacks.