Finally Microsoft released WebMatrix, a brand new web development tool that includes everything you need for website development. It helps students and beginners to understand Web Development easily. It has been in beta since July.
Starting from open source web applications, built-in web templates or you can even code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier.
Features of WebMatrix — Must Have Web Development Tool
#1 – Elegant interface & simple experience : WebMatrix has rich code editor, a database editor, Web server management, Search Engine Optimization, FTP publishing, and more, WebMatrix provides a fresh, new, Web site development experience that bridges all the key components you need to create, run, and deploy a Web site.
#2 – Optimize For Search : Run an SEO report and find how to make your site more visible to search engines. WebMatrix takes the secrets out of search engine optimization, provides clear guidance on how to make your site better, and even offers to take you right to the file in your site you need to fix.
#3 – Coding Made Simple : WebMatrix is the easiest way to learn standards-based Web development and makes it simple to build and publish Web sites on the internet. Start with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and then seamlessly connect to a database or add in dynamic server code using the new ‘Razor’ syntax for ASP.NET Web pages.
#4 – Simple Database — SQL Server Compact : Using a database has never been easier! WebMatrix includes a small, embedded database called SQL Server Compact that can live with your Web site code and content.
Now create, customize and publish websites using Microsoft WebMatrix. 🙂
Can we publish a website created through WebMatrix to a Linux server. I really want to know..
No mate, you can't use it unfortunately. 🙂
From what it looks like, WebMatrix seems to be a very good and easy tool to develop asp.net websites for beginners.. but till WP is in town.. i decide to stick to that 😛 atleast for blogging 😀
Thanks for the update pradeep! downloading now…
this is fail… problem with this one is hosting…. This is great for educational purposes only aside from that it fails
This is a great tool!
Yes, it has all the features and you can extend it to whatever level you want.
We are going to try this for our next .net deal this week.
So, finally Microsoft woke up. LOL!
This is great, I just love free software! WebMatrix rocks.
Good one from microsoft !! but do you think you will get all the features that we could actually create with .NET ???
It has all the basic features for helping students and newbies. Do try it mate. 🙂
Ah..finally they released it. Though m not a big fan of asp.net sites, still we can learn it 😛
Thanks for the Info Pradeep..I will try it in my old .NET project…lets see what it can do..
Do try it, I think it can help you a lot 🙂
WebMatrix will be assisting beginners develop asp.net website with ease
Ya you are right 🙂
WebMatrix seems to be a very good web development tool
Can we use Asp.net for building and managing a real website? And can we publish that website on a shared Linux server?
That shared "Linux" server is hitting me, there are not good for ASP stuffs.