Tagged: Microsoft

Last Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a beta version of WebMatrix, a free tool complementing the Web Platform, aimed at simplifying development of ASP.NET web applications.

Microsoft, previously bogged down (in my opinion) by the likes of MS Frontpage and the complex 1st version of Visual Studio, has gained much progression in it's web offerings, giving developers quite a respectable amount of tools (which are also easy to use) in recent years.

First impression

At the first glance, WebMatrix really feels the Windows 7 bundled Wordpad, with web/code development features. However,  familiarity and simplicity is definitely in line with ...

I attended Day 1 of the WebCamps^#1 (4th June), and am quite impressed by Visual Studio (VS) 2010's features and quite keen to start trying out ASP.net MVC2 "programming methodology".

I must admit, I once kept away from the suite mainly due to the non-semantic (and bloated) HTML markup generation. Now that it's been vastly improved, coupled with the focus on MVC (Model-View-Controller) all wrapped in an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), it is probably time to re-visit it.

Furthermore, as a strong opensource supporter, hearing that Microsoft embraced jQuery and packaged it in VS2010 was quite ...