One of the things that Microsoft has done consistently is cater to Windows developers. For years now, they’ve provided resources, tools, and other material to make it easy to get started in building applications for their operating system. They even provide express editions of their enterprise level development tools for hobby programmers.
Unfortunately, development on local Windows installations has been somewhat of a challenge because the local development environment often varied from production-level hosting environments.
Looking to mitigate this, Microsoft published WebMatrix – a web development framework seeking to make it significantly easier to build web applications on top of Windows.
First, we’ll look at some tutorial videos and then let’s talk about what this means from a development standpoint. [Read more…] about Microsoft Releases WebMatrix Beta