Microsoft 2008 manual Enhanced Web Development

improved transistor switching speed. 45nm Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors provide up to 12 MB of on-die, L2 cache, a dedicated high-front side bus, and fully-buffered DIMM Memory to minimize bottlenecks and errors within the memory subsystem. Furthermore, the shared memory bus in these processors has been replaced with a serial point-to-point lane and a dedicated buffer for each memory module, allowing dramatically improved memory efficiency and performance.

Enhanced Web Development

Organizations today need scalable, flexible development platforms to keep up with growth and the rapidly evolving Web industry. Windows Server 2008 meets this challenge with IIS 7.0 and the Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0. These tools provide a comprehensive platform for building and deploying applications that connect users to each other and their data— enabling them to visualize, share, and act on information.

IIS 7.0 enables developers to provide custom functionality in new, more powerful ways. With the new core server application programming interface (API) set, developers can develop feature modules in both native code (C/C++) and managed code (languages such as C# and Visual Basic that use the .NET Framework). In fact, much of the IIS 7.0 feature-set for request and application processing has been implemented by using these same APIs. IIS 7.0 also enables extensibility for configuration, scripting, event logging, and administration tool feature-sets, providing software developers with a complete server platform on which to build Web server extensions. By using the Xcopy Deployment tool in IIS 7.0, developers can easily duplicate applications across multiple Web servers. IIS 7.0 allows configuration settings to be stored in web.config files. Thus, developers can avoid costly, error-prone replication, manual synchronization, and additional configuration tasks.

Organizations today need scalable, flexible development platforms to keep up with growth and the rapidly evolving Web industry.

The .NET Framework 3.0 is the managed code programming model from Microsoft for building applications on Windows® clients, servers, and mobile or embedded devices. Developers can use the .NET Framework to build applications that have visually compelling user experiences, integrated communication across technology boundaries, support for a wide range of business processes, and easier online management of personal information.