Microsoft WebMatrix is a discontinued cloud-connected

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and

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for Windows, geared towards

web development Web development is the work involved in developing a website for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web application ...

. WebMatrix enables developers to build websites using built-in templates or popular open-source applications, with full support for ASP.NET,

PHP PHP is a General-purpose programming language, general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementati ...

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and

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developed WebMatrix for the purpose of providing web developers with coding, customization, and publishing capabilities all in one place.

History

WebMatrix is a successor of

ASP.NET Web Matrix ASP.NET Web Matrix, whose name was the inspiration for WebMatrix, was released in 2003 and later discontinued by Microsoft in favor of Web Developer Express, a free version of Visual Studio's web development functionality; Visual Studio is Micros ...

, which was released in 2003 and later discontinued. In 2011, WebMatrix was released to support the large number of open source

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and to provide a lightweight web development environment for PHP and the new, simplified ASP.NET web pages. It focused on a clean, simple user interface allowing web developers to build websites from scratch or by customizing open-source web content management systems such as

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, DotNetNuke,

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and

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. From 2011 to 2012, WebMatrix 2 Beta and RC releases added support for Node.js,

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s, additional website templates, and support publishing to Microsoft Azure web sites. On September 6, 2012, the official release of WebMatrix 2 went public. The release of WebMatrix 3 was made available on May 1, 2013. Unlike WebMatrix 2, WebMatrix 3 requires

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or later. In 2016, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of WebMatrix in favour of

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with formal support ending on November 1, 2017.

Features

* Simplified creation, publishing, and synchronization of companion cloud websites * Integration with source control systems including

Git Git () is a distributed version control system: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data integ ...

and

Team Foundation Server Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) is a Microsoft product that provides version control (either with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git), reporting, requirements managemen ...

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and

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for

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and

TypeScript TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript and adds optional static typing to the language. It is designed for the development of large appl ...

* Editing for

server-side language Server-side scripting is a technique used in web development which involves employing scripts on a web server which produces a response customized for each user's (client's) request to the website. The alternative is for the web server itself ...

s ASP.NET,

and

* Support for

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and

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s * Database manager for

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and

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* Deployment tools for files and database * Deployment to either shared hosting, dedicated servers or Microsoft Azure * Publishing websites using

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and Web Deploy (an IIS feature for publishing websites) * Built-in

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and performance reports * Remote and offline editing * Downloading remote sites for local editing * Database migration from

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4.0 database to

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or SQL ServerMigrate a Database to SQL server
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References

External links

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History

Features

See also

References

Further reading

External links