Among the initiatives that Microsoft has to facilitate the design and creation of Web applications, this week we find two important components focused on that idea: the Web Platform Installer and the Windows Application Web Gallery. In the case of the Web Platform Installer, we find that Microsoft continues to evolve this utility you can install at a stroke a lot of ingredients we might need to build our web applications. In the Windows Application Web Gallery, we have a resource center where people can find applications and free technology. NET and PHP available for download. But let us see in detail each of these applications.
Web Platform Installer
As I said, Microsoft has just released the first beta of version 2.0 of the Web Platform Installer, which allows us to form a unified set of components that make up the stack of a typical web platform, and all this in just 1 MB. Among the components included (and whose installation is fully customizable), we have:
* Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP SP3.
* IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 SP2.
* IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
* SQL Server 2008 Express.
* .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
* Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.
* IIS Extensions including:
o IIS 7 Media Services 3.0.
o IIS7 Administration Pack.
o Database Manager for IIS7.
o WebDav 7.5.
o FTP 7.5.
o FastCGI for PHP support on IIS6.
o URL Rewrite.
o IIS 7 Application Routing.
o Web Deployment Tool for IIS.S.
* ASP.NET and features such as ASP.NET MVC.
* Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio.
* The Community Version of PHP v5.2.9.
Windows Web Application Gallery
In this case we have a portfolio of applications and ASP.NET PHP fully tested as DotNetNuke, DasBlog, Graffiti, Drupal, WordPress, phpBB (incidentally, another proof of the shift to open source that Microsoft is doing) for lists download and install.
