Microsoft Web Platform Installer Released
Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx
What is Microsoft Web Platform Installer? (WebPI)
The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform.
What is the Microsoft Web Application Installer? (WebAI):
The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer.
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Benefits
Obtain components of the Microsoft Web Platform quickly and easily
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer provides a single installer that runs on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows Server 2008, to download the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1. The installer also identifies and installs Extensions for IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET, service packs, database drivers and other relevant Web platform technologies.
Choose which components to install to set up a complete or custom Web platform
The Web Platform Installer offers three installation options – Complete, which installs all available server and development products, Web server components, Web server extensions, and additional technologies; ASP.NET Developer, which installs the server components, tools and technologies that support the development and hosting of ASP.NET applications; and Custom, which allows you to choose exactly which components are installed to customize and streamline your Web platform. For example, you can choose specific components to support developing and hosting PHP applications on IIS 7.0, with support for data-driven applications through the SQL Server driver for PHP.
Install the latest versions of Microsoft Web Platform products, components and tools.
The Web Platform Installer downloads an XML-based manifest of available products and technologies, which is continually updated to ensure that each time the tool is run, it will offer the most current components and the latest versions of each technology, including service packs and other software updates. In addition, the Web Platform Installer will highlight newly available or pre-release software.
Features
- Single installer for all Microsoft Web Platform components including:
- 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 SP1
- ASP.NET, Complete and Custom installation options
- XML-based product manifest updated automatically when tool is run
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