1. Ken Casada Developer Evangelist Microsoft Switzerland kcasada@microsoft.com http://blogs.msdn.com/swiss_dpe_team/Default.aspx WebMatrix: Your Web Made Easy

2. Customize Publish Create What is WebMatrix?

3. Web ServerDatabase Web Framework WebMatrix includes

4. Students, New developers – for quickly building websites with ASP.NET Professional Developers – for your non daily-job – for a “quick&dirty” solution  Task Oriented: “I just need something done!” Developers who build small/medium sites for others – Acquire an App, customize and deploy Who is WebMatrix for?

5. IIS Express ASP.NET Web Pages & Razor syntax SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Anatomy of WebMatrix

7. Discover, browse and find a «WebMatrix verified» Web Hoster WebMatrix offer built-in publishing support FTP, FTPs WebDeploy Deploying with WebMatrix

8. 1 Year Free* Hosting  www.academiczone.ch www.academiczone.ch *Special terms of use apply

9. Based on the latest version of IIS server Installs in \program files, side-by-side IIS server Runs as interactive process, not as service Does not require Administrator privileges Fully supports all IIS7+ modules, ASP.NET, PHP You can run it from the command-line – Open command prompt – Navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\ – iisexpress.exe /port:35896 /path:C:\BasicWebSite – Open a browser and type: http://localhost:35896/...http://localhost:35896/ IIS Express

10. 2MB package File-based database, Xcopy deployment with app Full support for Dynamic Data, ASP.NET MVC High fidelity API support: ADO.NET, EF, LINQ… Seamless migration path to SQL Server – Support tables, indexes, foreign key, primary key – Does not support SP, views, UDF, geo location types SQL Server Compact 4

11. Minimize concepts – No need to understand OOP and classes – Simple ASPIs & Helpers (for all common web tasks) Smooth on-ramp to ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio SEO friendly by default No special tools required – works with notepad or any editor

13. Security: – WebSite membership – Recaptcha support  preventing automated programs from registering with your website Video support (Silverlight, Flash, MediaPlayer) Image elaboration (thumbnail image, uploading image,…) Bing: embed bing search box into your website Chart: renders more than 30 types of charts Social Networking – Linking your Website on Social Networking Sites – Adding a Twitter Feed – Rendering a Gravatar Image – Displaying a Facebook “Like” Button PayPal And more…. Many available Helpers...

14. Run a page in your site In the browser’s URL box, replace the name of the page with _Admin (first time you are required to create a pw)  http://localhost:8080/_Admin Installing ASP.NET Helpers

15. In the root folder of the web site, create a folder named App_Code In the App_Code folder create a new.cshtml file called MyHelpers.cshtml. Replace the content with Use the helper: @MyHelpers. MakeNote("My test note content") @helper MakeNote(string content) { Note @content } Creating custom helpers

16. Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Vista SP1 or later Windows XP SP3 Windows Server 2003 SP2 WebMatrix supported platform

17. Download WebMatrix (available in 9 languages)  http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/download http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/download WebMatrix tutorial available  www.asp.net/webmatrix/tutorials www.asp.net/webmatrix/tutorials 1 Year Free* Hosting  www.academiczone.ch www.academiczone.ch *Special terms of use apply More info...

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