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Microsoft Web Platform Launched

sarahintampa — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:42:00 GMT

The Microsoft Web Platform has just been launched and is available for download now from www.microsoft.com/web – the same site we recently featured here not too long ago. In addition to articles about web development and design, the website now also features a “Downloads” section, which is where you can find the Microsoft Web Platform download.

So what is the Microsoft Web Platform? Basically, it’s a bundled download of all the Microsoft developer technologies from the .NET Framework 3.5 to ASP.NET to Silverlight and more. It provides a single package for installing and configuring Microsoft's entire Web Platform, which includes IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and, of course, the .NET Framework.

The bundle has two main parts to it: 1) the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI), and 2) the Microsoft Web Application Installer (WebAI). The “Web Platform Installer” is a download manager that simplifies the download and installation process for the Microsoft technologies. However, it’s the “Web Application Installer” which is especially interesting. This piece of the WPI is a gallery that manages the setup, configuration, and acquisition of a number of technologies that run on top of Windows. This includes applications like popular ASP.NET and PHP web apps and even includes some that are open source. Some of the apps you're able to install with this platform are DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti, osCommerce, PHPBB, and Wordpress.

The Web Platform Installer Tool will also help developers by providing hands-on guidance to developers who are building cloud applications with these tools. The download is free and runs on Vista and Server 2008.

/web: Microsoft’s New Site For Web Professionals

sarahintampa — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:22:00 GMT

The newly launched /web is a site where web professionals can find articles, events, and relevant info from all over the internet - not just Microsoft.com pages. There are different categories to explore, including the following areas: inspiration, methods, business, events, blogs, and products, each with their own RSS feed. The categories can also be found at the top of the home page for easy browsing. An Editor's Picks section selects some of the most popular and interesting content and there’s an RSS feed for that section, too. I’m not even a web professional, but I’ve already found some great content on the site, including this article on Drupal, this one on Ubiquity, and this one on social networking.

Adobe renames Apollo web technology as AIR

Jesse — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:01:00 GMT

Today the public beta of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) goes live, ending the alpha chapter of its life as Apollo. As has been previously mentioned, the technology allows web developers to use their existing kung-fu to create applications with all the behavior and most of the abilities of traditional desktop apps. Adobe has a gallery of sample AIR applications online, of which the Yahoo-powered MapCache we’re playing with is particularly entertaining. Hopefully in the coming months we’ll see this ecosystem grow, if for no other reason than to update our Facebook profiles from the airplane.