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Using The New Git Support in WebMatrix 3
WebMatrix is probably my favorite web development IDE because it is so simple and easy to use. Sure I use Visual Studio 2012 everyday and it has probably the best web development features available on the market. I also really dig Sublime. WebMatrix is Read More...
Publish to Directly To Azure Web Sites With WebMatrix
WebMatrix is one of my favorite development tools because it really allows me to focus on what I love to do most, build modern web clients. It is a free Web IDE available from Microsoft and today they released version 3 for general availability . There Read More...
IIS Express Error: "Could not determine which version of ASP.NET Web Pages to use"
Have you updated to the latest Visual Studio yet? I upgraded to the release version of Visual Studio 2012, which I hope many of you have had the opportunity to do or will in the near future. I do a lot of development with WebMatrix and utilize IIS Express Read More...
Download WebMatrix for Easy Web Development & Great New Features
Last week Microsoft released version 2 of one of my favorite web development tools, WebMatrix. You can download the latest Web Matrix version (2) right now and get started. The latest version of WebMatrix has added many new features that put it on par  Read More...
Enabling IIS Express to Serve HTML5 Offline Cache Manifest
One of the HTML5 features I have been exploring lately is HTML5 offline applications . This is a very powerful feature that allows us to still use web applications even when no network is available. I call it airplane mode, because when I fly I don't Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 5 Adding Custom Classes
In the past week I have shared code using the new jQuery Templating plugin to build a nested tree view. The web site is a WebMatrix site and I use some server-side classes to supply the data that drives the page. Today I wanted to walk through this a Read More...
jQuery Templating and Data Linking Coming to a Site Near You
Finally!!! I was so excited to finally see the jQuery Team and Microsoft finally release the Templating and Data Linking plugins last week. If you have attended one of my WCF, jQuery sessions this year, or have been following my jQuery posts , you saw Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 4 Adding A Master Page
In my three previous posts about using the Microsoft WebMatrix tool I showed how to create a form, add database interactivity and automated E-Mail functionality. Today I want to start making the site take a more usable form by adding a site layout. Create Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 3 Adding E-Mail Support
This is the third in a series of posts on using the new ASP.NET WebMatrix tool. Today we are going to add automated E-Mail functionality. Again the Html Helpers make this a very easy task. Creating the Contact Form Adding Database Storage Continuing where Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support
Yesterday I posted the first in a series on using WebMatrix to build web sites . The first post created a basic contact form and collected the submitted values. Now I am going to add a database and a table to store the site’s contact form submissions. Read More...
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 1
Earlier this week Microsoft released a Beta version of WebMatrix , as web development tool aimed at new developers, hobbyist and those new to the Microsoft web stack. Today I am going to walk through building a standard contact form using WebMatrix . Read More...
Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor
Remember the days of Classic ASP? You know when you could build an entire application in notepad and some simple VBScript? Then Visual Interdev came along and well 12 years later we have a mountain range of classes and Visual Studio 2010 along with other Read More...