Free VWD and SQL Server 2005 Express Hosting (For 30 Days)

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If you're just getting around to checking out Visual Web Developer (whether as part of Visual Studio or by using the free Visual Web Developer Express Edition,) you might want to test out your application in a real-world hosting environment. Then again, most developers don't ever test anything, so why bother? :)

Assuming you do want to test things out without having to pay for ASP.NET 2.0 hosting, you can use Microsoft's VWDHosting.NET site to get a free Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005 Express hosting account good for 30 days. You'll get 50MB of disk space and 30MB of database space as well. This is a great way for new ASP.NET developers to test out how all of this works in a real-world hosting environment.

You can sign up right here.