WebMatrix
Everything Hosters Need for Website Devleopment
Microsoft WebMatrix makes it easy for service providers to create a new Web site. Start from a built-in template or from one of the free popular open source web applications, such as WordPress, Joomla!, DotNetNuke or Orchard. Customize your site using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other Web standards. You can find these on the online Web Applications Gallery.
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Online Training
The follow training session will provide you with a good base understanding of WebMatrix including how to build websites and web applications using the tool and framework. This session is broken down into three parts, each of approximately 50-60 minutes.
Part 1: You will learn what is WebMatrix, who is WebMatrix for and you will be introduced to the Razor Syntax. Razor is a view engine which was conceived to simplify the current syntax used in ASP.NET web pages. You will learn how to access a database and how to use a WebGrid control to present tabular data (ie: rows and columns)
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Part 2: You will learn how to use Layouts to maintain a consistent look and feel across all of the pages within your web-site/application. You will also be introduced to the use of helpers to manage different themes in your site, connecting to Facebook and more. Then you will learn about security and websites membership. Finally you will explore how the URL routing works in WebMatrix.
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Part 3: You will discover how to create your own helpers to reuse your components in WebMatrix and we will discuss about WebMatrix and OSS Web Applications integration. You will also learn how to publish your web applications. We will also discuss about when and how to move to Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC application development. Finally, we will share the WebMatrix roadmap.