Web developers around the world using Microsoft’s web technologies will rejoice as Microsoft have reased a beta version of their Web Platform Installer. This is similar to Fantastico De Luxe for cPanel Linux servers. This provides ability to quickly install a .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, IIS7.0 and Extensions, IIS FastCGI, Visual Web Developer 2008, SQL Server 2008 Express, SQL Server Management Studio, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight Tools and also number of the leading open source content management systems like DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti, osCommerce, PHPBB, and Wordpress into their web space. The benifit of Web Application Installer is that you are always installing the latest versions of the software and you can update the Web Platform with a single installer.

Web developers around the world using Microsoft’s web technologies will rejoice as Microsoft have reased a beta version of their Web Platform Installer. This is similar to Fantastico De Luxe for cPanel Linux servers. This provides ability to quickly install a .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, IIS7.0 and Extensions, IIS FastCGI, Visual Web Developer 2008, SQL Server 2008 Express, SQL Server Management Studio, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight Tools and also number of the leading open source content management systems like DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti, osCommerce, PHPBB, and Wordpress into their web space. The benifit of Web Application Installer is that you are always installing the latest versions of the software and you can update the Web Platform with a single installer.

Web PI and Web AI are FREE to download and available now at Microsoft.com/Web/Download