

Unlike WebMatrix 2, WebMatrix 3 requires Windows 7 or later. The release of WebMatrix 3 was made available on May 1, 2013. On September 6, 2012, the official release of WebMatrix 2 went public. It focused on a clean, simple user interface allowing web developers to build websites from scratch or by customizing open-source web content management systems such as Orchard, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress.įrom 2011 to 2012, WebMatrix 2 Beta and RC releases added support for Node.js, mobile simulators, additional website templates, and support publishing to Microsoft Azure web sites. In 2011, WebMatrix was released to support the large number of open source content management systems and to provide a lightweight web development environment for PHP and the new, simplified ASP.NET web pages. WebMatrix is a successor of ASP.NET Web Matrix, which was released in 2003 and later discontinued.

Microsoft developed WebMatrix for the purpose of providing web developers with coding, customization, and publishing capabilities all in one place. WebMatrix enables developers to build websites using built-in templates or popular open-source applications, with full support for ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js and HTML5. Thus, I believe that the linkage between WebMatrix and VS is not complete until that becomes available.Microsoft WebMatrix is a free, cloud-connected website builder and HTML editor for Windows, geared towards web development. I would suspect that the integration of IIS Express with VS will include more configuration tool that can be used to perform tasks such as creating virtual directories for shared resources. Now, I understand that IIS Express will be available for VS at some point.

In my previous response, I was more focusing on the current functionality of WebMatrix which does not have much in the way of configuration tools.

NET Framework using the new Razor technology. It is for those who wish to use the dynamic features that come with the. First, WebMatrix is not intended for developing full-featured websites. While I'm sure that there are a lot of features that come from IIS 7 (as IIS Express is based on this version), you need to also look at the intent. A lot of what you're trying to do is a little like putting the cart before the horse.
