The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is now v1.0. Simply putting, it provides you a single installer download of the web platform which includes IIS 7/116, Visual Web Developer Development Tool, SQL Server 2008 Express as well as the .NET Framework. So, if you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003/2008, it gives you all the stuff you require to start with web development. Combined with this, the Web Application Installer which provides a lot of popular web applications such as the DotNetNuke, Graffiti etc., the Web Platform Installer is a great resource for starting your web development in Microsoft Platform. Some of these also support open source and shared source development and even require installation of PHP framework...(read more) ...
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