PASADENA, USA: DiscountASP.NET, a leading innovator in Windows Server 2008 hosting, partnered with Microsoft to unveil a free sandbox hosting program at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008.

The hosting program will allow developers to get early experience and provide feedback on next-generation web application packaging and deployment scenarios.

Today, DiscountASP.NET announces extending the free Microsoft Web Deployment Tool sandbox hosting program until June 30, 2009 with the latest Web Deployment Tool RC1.

"Since a new update to the Web Deployment Tool was recently introduced, we wanted to extend the sandbox hosting program to give developers the chance to test publishing to a live hosting environment and provide feedback based on their application deployment experience using the new release," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET.

"It's a great opportunity for developers to participate in improving the application deployment experience," added Eto.

The free Web Deployment Tool sandbox hosting program is a limited program offered as an open beta on a first come first serve basis. The beta hosting account comes with 50 MB of disk space and 50 MB of SQL Server 2008 database space.