NET web applications, though the common factor is that all are configured for IIS, Microsoft’s web server. Yes, you can use PHP and MySQL as well as. What you get is a cleanly-designed tool which lets you start web sites from templates or from standard installs of popular applications including WordPress, Drupal and Moodle. It uses the Web Platform Installer and installed smoothly on my Windows 7 64-bit box.

Database migration from SQL Server Compact 4.Microsoft has released WebMatrix, a free tool for creating web sites for Microsoft’s web server.Downloading remote sites for local editing.Built-in search engine optimization and performance reports.Publishing websites using FTP, FTPS and Web Deploy (an IIS feature for publishing websites).Deployment to either shared hosting, dedicated servers or Microsoft Azure.Deployment tools for files and database.

Database manager for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and SQL CE.

Support for jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Less and Sass.

Editing for server-side languages ASP.NET, PHP and Node.js.

Code completion and syntax highlighting for HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and TypeScript.

Integration with source control systems including Git and Team Foundation Server.

Simplified creation, publishing, and synchronization of companion cloud websites.

In 2016, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of WebMatrix in favour of Visual Studio Code with formal support ending on November 1, 2017. Unlike WebMatrix 2, WebMatrix 3 requires Windows 7 or later. The release of WebMatrix 3 was made available on May 1, 2013. On September 6, 2012, the official release of WebMatrix 2 went public. It focused on a clean, simple user interface allowing web developers to build websites from scratch or by customizing open-source web content management systems such as Orchard, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress.įrom 2011 to 2012, WebMatrix 2 Beta and RC releases added support for Node.js, mobile simulators, additional website templates, and support publishing to Microsoft Azure web sites. In 2011, WebMatrix was released to support the large number of open source content management systems and to provide a lightweight web development environment for PHP and the new, simplified ASP.NET web pages. WebMatrix is a successor of ASP.NET Web Matrix, which was released in 2003 and later discontinued.

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