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WebMatrix-The Swiss Army knife from Microsoft


 What’s more in store for Web developers, ASP.Net 4.5(with full support for HTML 5 , CSS 3 amd Javascript) and to complement it, is the new awesome tool-WebMatrix.


WebMatrix combines five products in one, letting you install, develop, optimize, deploy and manage your sites and databases. With support for the latest web standards like HTML5 & CSS3, multiple frameworks like ASP.NET & PHP, and multiple database engines like MySQL & SQL Server..and what’s even better…it FREE!! !

To learn more about webmatrix, I recomment the following video.

WebMatrix-An intro


The tools promises a lot and I have already downloaded a copy and started playing with it.

Hope the information  here is useful.

Till next we connect….

Happy Learning.

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