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Microsoft Revs Its ASP.Net Engines

At this week's VSLive! developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft will be doing more than showing off its next-generation tools suite.

The company also will be beating the drum for its ASP .Net scripting language  Redmond's alternative to the open-source PHP.

To demonstrate momentum for ASP .Net, Microsoft is expected to highlight several projects the company has built using ASP. Net. And, plucking a page from the open-source book, Microsoft will likely tout the fact that it is making the full source code available to developers interested in these ASP .Net wares.

Microsoft already introduced one such project  its ASP. Net Web Matrix hobbyist development tool - less than a year ago. Microsoft has shown off Web Matrix at two LinuxWorld Expo shows, including last month's in New York.

At VSLive!, sources say that Microsoft will likely take the wraps off a few more ASP .Net projects.

One of these is expected to be its "Cassini" personal Web server, which runs on top of both Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Cassini is neither an open-source Web server, nor an intended successor to Microsoft Internet Information Server. Instead, it's simply a low-end solution aimed at more smaller customers with fewer scalability requirements, say those in the know.

Redmond also is expected to show off "IBuySpy," two ASP. Net-based applications the company has been developing for the past year. IBuySpy Store is an e-commerce storefront app; IBuySpy Portal is, as its name indicates, a shopping portal. Microsoft has engineered IBuySpy developer solution kits to help users customize the two ASP .Net applications.

Microsoft also is making available for download its ASP .Net Developer Forums Toolkit code. The free toolkit" allows programmers to build Web-based discussion systems. Like Cassini and IBuySpy, the toolkit makes use of ASP .Net and Microsoft's .Net Framework code.

Microsoft declined to comment in advance on any announcements it plans to make at this week's VSLive! show.

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