Microsoft Web Platform

NunoGodinho — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:57:48 GMT

With the purpose of helping the Web developers Microsoft launched a new site called, Microsoft Web Platform that contains several elements with the goal of simplifying the life of those developers, with some of the contents being:

This is not yet completed, but it’s a good idea and I’m certain that it will grow a lot in the near future.

On this site we find 2 installer packages, that are:

Microsoft Web Platform Installer
- This package is completely free and serves as a “Launcher” for the development of Web Solutions using Microsoft platform, because it installs IIS7, Visual Studio Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and also .NET Framework
Microsoft Web Application Installer
- This package will allow us to create easy installers for Web Applications in PHP or ASP.NET that will be installed on IIS.

Without any doubt this is a good way to centralize contents for whoever develops or wants to develop solutions for the Web.

ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

NunoGodinho — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:46:47 GMT

Being ASP.NET AJAX a very important part of ASP.NET one thing that would help is knowing what and when will be delivered and so a Roadmap is a must-have, and Microsoft delivered precisely that in order for us to get to know what's being done and have some notion about when it will be delivered, and I think there's some great stuff there like AJAX in ASP.NET MVC, Interoperability, Accessibility and even support for OpenAJAX-compliant XML metafiles, never forgetting that the Javascript support in Visual Studio must evolve also. So if you want to have detailed information about this subject check here for the complete document with all the explanation regarding this Roadmap.

Nuno Filipe Godinho : AJAX

Microsoft Web Platform

ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap