A friend mentioned this to me today and it looks interesting for those of use with CMS sites such as Joomla, Drupal and DotNetNuke etc. etc.
Taken from the MS blurb...
WebMatrix is a new, free, web development tool from Microsoft that provides a suite of technologies that make it easier to enable website development. It enables a developer to start a new site by browsing and downloading an app template from an online gallery of web applications (which includes popular apps like Umbraco, DotNetNuke, Orchard, WordPress, Drupal and Joomla). Alternatively it also enables developers to create and code web sites from scratch.
WebMatrix is task focused and helps guide developers as they work on sites. WebMatrix includes IIS Express, SQL CE 4, and ASP.NET - providing an integrated web-server, database and programming framework combination. It also includes built-in web publishing support which makes it easy to find and deploy sites to web hosting providers.
You can learn more about WebMatrix from my Introducing WebMatrix blog post this summer http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/06/introducing-webmatrix.aspx. Visit http://microsoft.com/web to download and install it today.
Taken from the MS blurb...
WebMatrix is a new, free, web development tool from Microsoft that provides a suite of technologies that make it easier to enable website development. It enables a developer to start a new site by browsing and downloading an app template from an online gallery of web applications (which includes popular apps like Umbraco, DotNetNuke, Orchard, WordPress, Drupal and Joomla). Alternatively it also enables developers to create and code web sites from scratch.
WebMatrix is task focused and helps guide developers as they work on sites. WebMatrix includes IIS Express, SQL CE 4, and ASP.NET - providing an integrated web-server, database and programming framework combination. It also includes built-in web publishing support which makes it easy to find and deploy sites to web hosting providers.
You can learn more about WebMatrix from my Introducing WebMatrix blog post this summer http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/06/introducing-webmatrix.aspx. Visit http://microsoft.com/web to download and install it today.