Question about Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

[monoman]

If I develop a website using the express edition, can I upload it and have it hosted at a hosting site that supports Asp.Net 3.5?

I remember reading, somewhere, that there are limitations to the amount of traffic an express site can handle. Does this only apply to a site that is hosted on your own PC with the express edition installed?

Just to add, the site includes access to an SQL database. (Looking at windows, this is SQL Server 2005 with SQL Server Management Studio Express).

Cheers

ETA, looking at the Microsoft FAQ (http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/faq/) , it says:

SQL Server Express is designed to meet the needs of simple applications. It is limited to using 1 CPU and up to 1GB RAM, with a 4GB maximum database size. ...Does this type of restriction only apply when hosting the site yourself?

Also from that FAQ:



What is Visual Web Developer 2008 Express? Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is a stand-alone, lightweight, easy-to-use Web-focused tool for building ASP.NET 3.5 applications. It includes everything you need to begin building Web applications, including a built-in development/test Web server.
For whom is Visual Web Developer 2008 Express intended? Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is intended for non-professional, hobbyists, students and beginning Web developers who want to learn how to build ASP.NET 3.5 Web applications.



I don't understand this, I built a whole classifieds ads website, using the express edition, about a year ago. FAQ 35 says I can do this, FAQ 36 implies it's not for that.

[Wowbagger]

For Web Developer Express: The limits only apply to the development environment. You can create a web site with full ASP.NET 3.5 capabilities with it, and it would run just as well as one written with the Professional Edition on any given server.
Of course, there could be limits in your web server, depending on licensing and whatnot, but that has nothing to do with the Web Express development system.

SQL Server Express has quite a few limits as far as what hardware it will utilize, as you can see, and perhaps in how many people can access it at a time. However, that only applies to the server software, not the data file itself. if you detach the database file you are using, and move it to a full version of SQL Server, it will run just as well as anything else on an that SQL Server.

So the bottom line: Software development environments and servers have limits. The products you develop with them do not, in general.

[shadron]

Microsoft has always marketed two flavor (well, at least two) of their development suites. the Express editions are for hobbists, the full edition for professionals. In many cases of Visual Studio Express (C++, C#, J++) won't do create debugging binaries, though I don't know if that would be the same for web development.