Microsoft WebMatrix
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Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Stable release | 7.1.1674.0
/ 8 January 2011 |
Operating system | Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP (Service Pack 3) Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2[1] |
Platform | Intel x86 - 32bit and .NET Framework |
Size | 12 MB[1] |
Available in | English, Italian, Czech, German, Korean, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Port-Brazil, French, Turkish, Spanish, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional[1] |
Type | Website builder and HTML editor |
License | Freeware[1] |
Website | www |
Microsoft WebMatrix is a free, all-in-one, extensible web development application for Windows, developed by Microsoft. WebMatrix lets web developers build websites using built-in templates or popular open source applications, with full support for ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js and HTML 5.
History
In 2011, WebMatrix was released to support the large number of open source content management systems and to provide a lightweight web development application for PHP and the new, simplified ASP.NET Web Pages. 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 DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress, among others.
From 2011 to 2012, WebMatrix 2 Beta and RC releases added support for Node.js, mobile simulators, additional website templates, publishing to Windows Azure Web Sites and more. On September 6th 2012 the official release of WebMatrix 2 went public.
ASP.NET Web Matrix, whose name was the inspiration for WebMatrix, was released in 2003 and later discontinued.
Features
- Integrated installation for popular open source content management systems.
- Source code completion and syntax highlighting for HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript.
- Editing for server side languages ASP.NET, PHP and Node.js.
- Support for jQuery, jQuery Mobile, LESS and Sass.
- Mobile simulators.
- Database manager for MySQL, MS SQL Server, SQL CE.
- Deployment tools for files and database.
- Deployment to either shared hosting, dedicated servers or Windows Azure.
- Transfer files using FTP and Web Deploy.
- Built-in SEO and Performance reports.
- Remote and offline editing.
- Download remote sites to your computer for local editing.
References
External links
- www.webmatrix.com
- WebMatrix 1
- WebMatrix 2
- How-To
- WebMatrix at IIS.NET website
- Learn WebMatrix
- Release announcement of v1
- Download WebMatrix from Microsoft.com