Windows Server 2008 R2 hosting comes with Internet Information Services 7.5 (IIS7.5), a Web server and security-enhanced, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting Web applications and services.  All Re-invent web servers are Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 hosting servers.

SQL Server 2008 R2 Hosting provides the trusted, productive and intelligent platform necessary for business-critical applications.  Re-invent hosting plans come with multiple FREE SQL 2008 R2 Databases! Our hosting plans provide for FREE SQL 2008 R2 databases on separate SQL 2008 hosting database servers. The version installed is SQL 2008 R2 Web Edition 64 Bit. The version is 100.2531.0 with R2 SP1 installed

ASP.NET 4.0 hosting and 3.5 SP1 provides the features, flexibility, and functionality to help you build better Web sites. It includes the professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools needed to create dynamic and sophisticated Web sites.

Re-invent supports ASP.NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 SP1 and 4.0 Hosting on all plans.

ASP.NET MVC 3.0 and 2.0 hosting is a free and fully supported Microsoft framework for building web applications that use a model-view-controller pattern. Like ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC is built on the ASP.NET framework.

 Key ASP.NET MVC Hosting Features

Clean Separation - Because of the clear separation of roles, you can unit test applications without having to run the Controllers within an ASP.NET process making unit testing faster.

 Supports Existing ASP.NET Page Features - You can use existing ASP.NET page features, such as data-binding, declarative server controls, in-line expressions, localization, nested master pages, templates..etc.

 Supports Existing ASP.NET Features - ASP.NET MVC allows you to use features such as membership and roles, output and data caching, and session and profile state management. 

 Extensible - The MVC framework can be customized easily.

 URL Mapping - MVC enables you to build applications with clean URLs to support search engine optimization.

Note: You can upload the MVC assembly to the /bin folder. Also, if you are using our Windows 2003/IIS6 server, you will need to contact us to have the ASP.NET wildcard mapping added.

 ASP.NET MVC Hosting 3.0, 2.0 and 1.0 is available on our hosting plans by default.

Re-invent.com fully supports Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 Hosting on all our hosting plans. ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 is a free framework from Microsoft for ASP.NET for quickly creating a new generation of more efficient, more interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers.

ASP.NET AJAX (formerly called ATLAS) is a framework for building rich interactive, cross-browser web applications. This Microsoft technology integrates cross-browser client script libraries with the .NET framework. 

ASP.NET AJAX hosting makes it possible to take advantage of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques to create ASP.NET webpages with rich user interfaces. Including both client-side and server-side components, ASP.NET AJAX allows creating web applications in ASP.NET which can update data on the web page without a complete reload of the page. 

Microsoft Silverlight Hosting 4.0 /3.0 / 2.0 is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive Web applications. Silverlight offers a flexible programming that supports AJAX, VB, and C#, and integrates with existing Web applications.  Re-invent.com supports both Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0 on our hosting plans.

Key Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 Hosting Features

Out of the Browser Support 

Webcam and Microphone Support - You can now capture source input from the user's audio device or video device.

Multicast - The System.Net.Sockets namespace has added support for UDP multicast clients.

Printing - You can now print the user interface of a Silverlight application by using the PrintDocument class.

Drag and Drop - Silverlight 4 introduces APIs to support drag-and-drop.

Clipboard Access - You can get or set Unicode text information to a shared Clipboard object.

Full Screen Support - Silverlight now enables applications to remain in full-screen mode when another application is active.

Windows Phone Platform Support - Silverlight is now supported on Windows Phone 7 Series in a Community Technology Preview (CTP).

Some Key Silverlight 3.0 Hosting Features

Empowers Richer Experiences - Silverlight 3 includes new 3D graphics, animation features and text improvements that enable designers and developers to create next generation Web visual experiences. These include:
     
     Perspective 3D Graphics
     Pixel Shader effects
     Themed application support
     Animation Effects, like spring and bounce
     Improved text rendering & font support 

60+ controls with source code - Silverlight 3 comes with 60+ fully skinnable and customizable out-of-the-box controls such as charting, autocomplete, treeview and datagrid.

Deep Linking - Silverlight 3 includes support for deep linking, enabling bookmarking a page within your rich internet application.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Silverlight 3 enables users to solve the SEO-related challenges by utilizing business objects on the server, together with ASP.NET controls and site maps, to automatically mirror database-driven rich internet application (RIA) content into HTML that can be search engine indexed.

Out of Browser Capabilities - Silverlight 3 enables users new out of browser experiences, that is the ability to place their favorite Silverlight applications directly onto their PC or Mac, with links on the desktop and start menu—all without the need to download an additional runtime or browser plug-in.