Working With WordPress and Windows IIS

I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite

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Web Platform Installer

Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer was released as 1.0 yesterday (see the announcement). Pretty fast work – seems like I first learned about it back in October.

If you do any development on the Microsoft Web stack, this is a great utility that will get you all setup and ready to go. Free.

Web Platform Installer Updated

I mentioned Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer back in early October. It was beta then and a Release Candidate version was announced late last week with some nice new features. No longer is it restricted to just Vista and Server 2008, it now adds support for XP and Server 2003. Some new tools have been added

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer

I caught an interesting post on the Windows Server blog earlier today about the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer beta. This thing is pretty slick and if you do any web development in the Microsoft world, it’s something you’ll want to grab whenever setting up a new environment.

No more wandering around the various

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