Blog by pthurrott on 7/6/10
Microsoft today released a beta version of WebMatrix, a free tool for
"building, customizing and deploying websites in one common, straightforward
experience." WebMatrix targets developers of all skill sets, and can be
downloaded today at www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix.
WebMatrix is a tool that includes the following:
- Web server: IIS
Developer Express is a lightweight server that helps developers build
and test ASP.NET sites and applications and works
with Visual Studio 2010, Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, and now WebMatrix.
- Database: SQL
Server Compact Edition 4 is a free, embedded, database engine that
enables easy database storage. It works with existing .NET-based data APIs and
ASP.NET Web applications.
- Programming Framework: ASP.NET
provides developers a faster way to build standards-based websites with its
syntaxes and built-in helpers, which both simplify the use of ASP.NET to perform increasingly complex and common
tasks, such as connecting to a database, displaying a Twitter feed, or
embedding a video.
For more info, check out Scott
Guthrie's blog post:
This tool is free, provides core coding and database support, integrates
with an open source web application gallery, and includes support to easily
publish/deploy sites and applications to web hosting providers.
WebMatrix is a 15MB download (50MB if you don’t have .NET 4 installed) and
is quick to install.
The 15MB download includes a lightweight development tool, IIS Express, SQL
Compact Edition, and a set of ASP.NET extensions that enable you to build
standalone ASP.NET Pages using the new Razor syntax, as well as a set of easy
to use database and HTML helpers for performing common web-tasks.
WebMatrix can be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web
Developer 2010 Express.
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