Is there an anticipated date for support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0?

I too am very interested in this. I have an application that was built in .NET 4.0 and is dependent on WCF Services.

Either way you go on an update (simple or IIS-like), will you include support for WCF?

Hmm, please excuse my possible ignorance, but aren't we talking about two different things here?

Supporting VS 2010 isn't hte same as supporting .NET 4.0. I have a .NET 3.5 web app that we're using the 2010 IDE to develop. The issue we're facing is that although Cassini supports the CLR we're targeting, it's not available as a prereq in 2010. Am I missing something or is 2010 indeed a separate/new feature?

By the way, I guess you guess would like to find new markets now that you've built up a good reputation with Cassini but I'm guessing the main reason we're all using it is that it's NOT IIS. ;)

Hi,
I'm very interested in .NET framework 4.0 version of Cassini.
Hope it soon.
Thanks and best regards,

All, here's quick update on the progress.

We are working very hard and we feel we are on track to release Beta 1 of the UltiDev Web Server Pro before the end of the year. It remains free and redistributable, but will add lots of advanced, IIS-like features, including ASP.NET 4, SSL, multiple host processes, support of 32-bit applications on x64 systems, compression, virtual directories, port sharing, Windows authentication, conditional requests, etc. First Beta will include only runtime components, but Beta 2 will include redistributable prerequisites for Setup authoring tools like Visual Studio and possibly InstallShield. We hope to release 2 or 3 Betas in rapid succession and have final release early Q1 2011.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

Hello, Mike.

Q1. It's free because it's hard to compete with good free web servers like IIS and Apache. We rather use our web server as brand and awareness building tool for our other product - HttpVPN. However, we'll probably add "Donate" button somewhere. We agree that doing a major refresh in 2010 after 2006 release is not a very good release cycle. We would definitely like to generate some revenue to make the release cycle shorter.

Q2. Compression has to do with GZIP compression of responses served by the web server. If client sends a request and tells the server it understands GZIP encoding, our server will compress response for subset of content types, like HTML, XML, SOAP, JavaScript, CSS and all text MIME types. It helps a lot with bandwidth, especially for ASP.NET applications whose VIEWSTATE can be hundreds of kilobytes with just a couple of data grids on the page. As far as "keep in memory" feature goes, it will be tweaked a bit. Instead of being just a yes/no flag, application settings will allow specifying a relative URL that would be hit in order to keep application in memory. No URL - no keeping in memory. It will allow specifying URL other than default page to keep application in memory. Your posts were helpful in making this change - thank you, and everyone who reads this should note that this product's functionality is driven by our users to a very large extent, so please tell us what you think.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

You're right. Google Desktop is a perfect example of the type of application that would benefit from UltiDev Web Server.

Both new and current version of UltiDev Cassini Web Server take advantage of multi-core CPUs because each request is handled by a separate thread, and multiple threads are scheduled on different cores or CPUs in SMP systems.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

Mike,

Most of UltiDev Web Server Pro components will be compiled as .NET 2.0, except CLR 4.0 host processes. But we have done lots of work to ensure that multi-core CPUs are used efficiently.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

We are working like mad on the new release. Hope to get it out of the door soon.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

Hi, Clay.

We are not far from releasing the first beta, a few weeks, probably. We did hit a snag at the end of November and had to completely replace (simplify) the logic of host processes life cycle management. It did cost us about seven weeks of delay, but now we are out of the woods, and the product is looking really good - running ASP.NET 4 in 32 and 64-bit modes without a hitch. We are are very anxious to get the product out of the door, but having just surpassed 500,000 installations mile stone we have a lot of users who will be unhappy if we don't do it well.

New release, although it will not require IT skills to, will require administrative access privileges to get product installed. Also, registering a web application with the web server will require administrative access as well because it's quite consequential from the security perspective.

We are sorry it's taking us a little longer than we expected, but have a feeling that the new version of the product will be worth waiting - it's much more sophisticated that its predecessor.

We very much appreciate your interest.
What do you think of IIS Express?

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.