Microsoft announced today the release of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 1.0, a free downloadable tool designed to help install the Microsoft Web Platform or its components. The whole platform can be ...

Microsoft with a planned upgrade to its Visual Studio Express products will center on Windows and Web development as well as on data-driven application development. Visual Studio Express products are ...

Redmond, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of ...

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The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that allows you to install all or part of Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including IIS 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, .NET ...

In its latest bid to keep Web developers in the fold, Microsoft has developed a tool designed to manage the setup, configuration and retrieval of different Web applications. Microsoft Wednesday ...

This week, Microsoft launched a web site aimed at teaching new developers about the Visual Studio 2005 Express tools and the .NET programming languages. The Beginner Developer Learning Center, as it ...