Microsoft Launches WebMatrix

Microsoft India launched WebMatrix, a free Web development tool designed to help Website developers to create, customize and publish Websites. Microsoft has also made available a set of video tutorials, how-to tips and other resources for helping new Web developers get started.

“Available in nine languages, WebMatrix provides tools that developers need to build, customize and deploy Websites on Windows,” said Moorthy Uppaluri, General Manager, Developer Partner Evangelism, Microsoft India. It also uses free open source Web applications, such as WordPress, Joomla, DotNetNuke and Umbraco.

WebMatrix provides the Web server, database and Web frameworks. It increases development productivity with support for multiple programming syntaxes, such as ASP.NET Razor or PHP, and Web helpers, which give a single line-of-code solution for complex coding tasks, such as inserting Twitter feeds or video, the company said.