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WebMatrix refresh released.

We’ve just published a minor refresh to WebMatrix, which you can download and use from the Web...

Date: 02/18/2011

WebMatrix shipping January 13, 2011

I'm pleased to announce that WebMatrix v1 is ready to go, and starting tomorrow (Thursday, January...

Date: 01/12/2011

WebMatrix Beta 3: Now available!

  We’re pleased to announce that WebMatrix Beta 3 is now available for immediate download from...

Date: 11/09/2010

Microsoft announces WebMatrix Beta 2

Today Microsoft released the second beta of WebMatrix, which is available to download now at...

Date: 10/06/2010

Hello, WebMatrix!

Over the last few days Scott Guthrie has been blogging about new technologies that we’re delivering...

Date: 07/06/2010

SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP2 is now released

It is our pleasure to announce the release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of the SQL...

Date: 06/16/2010

Announcing phpBB: Available for the Microsoft Web Platform

Today Microsoft is announcing that the Windows Web Application Gallery and Web Platform Installer...

Date: 05/07/2010

SQL Server Driver for PHP Adds Support for PHP Data Objects

This week, Microsoft is participating in the DrupalCon San Francisco Conference at the Moscone...

Date: 04/19/2010

Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, ASP.NET 4 Released

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, which...

Date: 04/13/2010

Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps

function webCamps() {      day1.Learn();     day2.Build(); }...

Date: 04/09/2010

Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0

Optimizing Windows Server-based Web sites for search just got a lot easier now that the final...

Date: 03/25/2010

Final Release of ASP.NET MVC 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Available Now

The final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008...

Date: 03/23/2010

FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released.

Today the IIS team released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1. This allows popular...

Date: 01/19/2010

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy

del.icio.us Tags: IIS Today, Microsoft announced a monthly spotlight series, beginning with the SEO...

Date: 01/13/2010

Microsoft, Open Source and the CodePlex Foundation

Today the CodePlex Foundation announced the addition of the Orchard Project to it’s ASP.NET Gallery....

Date: 12/09/2009

Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension

What is it? The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the...

Date: 11/23/2009

Web 2.0 – What’s it all about?

Introduction Ask any ten people what Web 2.0 is and you’ll likely get ten different answers. Ask any...

Date: 11/12/2009

Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform

The Internet and the Web are hardly new, but, with the rapid change and rapid innovation that is...

Date: 11/11/2009

Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit [UPDATED]

Installing the toolkit. You can install the SEO Toolkit from the Microsoft Web Platform Installer....

Date: 11/10/2009

Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit

You can install the SEO Toolkit from the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. However, do note that the...

Date: 10/27/2009

PHP Support with Expression Web 3

PHP is one of the essential Web technologies and we’ve supported PHP in Expression Web for several...

Date: 10/21/2009

PHP on Windows for Developers

PHP is the ‘P’ in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which might give you the impression that PHP is...

Date: 10/15/2009

Welcome to the Microsoft Web Platform team blog!

Welcome to the /Web team blog at Microsoft. We’re launching this blog along with the new...

Date: 10/12/2009