Their third IIS Manager UI extension in public beta for customers has been launched by a leading innovator in Windows 2008 hosting, DiscountASP.NET.

Global Assembly Cache (GAC) Viewer module: This tool allows customers to view and obtain details of the server-side global assembly cache assemblies.

Microsoft introduced, with the launch of Windows 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7), IIS Manager, a new IIS administration tool which provides end users with a familiar user interface to remotely manage IIS7 server configurations. DiscountASP.NET customers, using IIS Manager, can view settings and manipulate their web.config files for features that have been delegated to them.

VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET, Takeshi Eto, declared: "One of our guiding principles is to provide our customers with maximum control over their hosting platform." He added: "That is why we are very excited with new features in IIS7 that provide us with the ability to delegate website configurations to our customers and allow us to extend IIS Manager to address customer needs."

Including Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies, the GAC viewer module displays details of the supported server-side assemblies and provides DiscountASP.NET customers with a way to check which versions of assemblies are available on their production web server as they develop their web applications, without having to contact Technical Support for this information.

To get feedback from customers, these new DiscountASP.NET IIS Manager UI extensions are launched as a public beta. An IIS Manager Feedback module was introduced previously, where customers can send feedback and suggestions directly to DiscountASP.NET from within IIS Manager to facilitate feedback submission.