Benjamin Howarth from Code Gecko Developments discussed running Umbraco in shared hosting and what the benefits mean for businesses (both small and large) and developers.

1. Medium Trust forUmbraco 4.x Benjamin HowarthCode Gecko Developments

2. Sounds boring, right? It’s crucial to your development Safer Faster Cheaper Medium Trust

3. Virtual bilateral bubble (VBB) Protects your code from others’ Protects others’ code from yours Better coding practices Safer

4. Temporary directory overflow ∴ Bad coding practice Move to App_Code Strongly-defined ∴ safer Cached at application level ∴ faster Works in Medium Trust ∴ cheaper <msxml:script />

5. A couple of nifty .NET coding tricks ~ 50 lines of code in the core A lifetime of XSLT sins saved  How? Why?

6. ...doesn’t work in Medium Trust? Only certain methods (e.g. Reflection.Emit) Is the assembly “safe”? But Reflection...

7. public static methods & class [XsltExtension] attribute Done! Refactoring

8. Doug Robar’sXSLTsearch module Examples

9. New App_Codeeditor coming soon (thanks to Lee Kelleher) Intellisensein the browser window(will be done as TinyMCEplugin) Code pre-compilation to test if App_Code will fail compiling Faster

10. Out-of-the-box support for: Visual Web Developer Express SQL Server Express Works on shared hosting (tested with GoDaddy £10/month account) As long as you have the NETWORK SERVICE user as the application pool identity(thanks to Ian Houghton) ∴ Comparable to Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke (et al) for development & setup costs Cheaper

11. Safer, more efficient code Better practices Reduced development costs & overheads ∴ Lots of benefits for everyone Summary