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Microsoft Student Partner Program 3rd Seminar @

Anna University of Technology Coimbatore

WEBMATRIX

What is WebMatrix?????

Microsoft WebMatrix is a free tool that allows you to Create, Customize and Publish web sites on the Internet.

WebMatrix makes it easy for you to create web sites.

WebMatrix provides everything your web site needs to run including the web server, database, and framework.

How to install WebMatrix???

You can download it from http://web.ms/webmatrix.

Install the each item by clicking Add button and install button

Starting Page Of WebMatrix

Welcome screen support these ways of building a web site

•My Site

•Site From Web Gallery

•Site From Template

•Site From Folder

My sites:It contain existing website which you created.

Site From Web Gallery: The Web Application Gallery (WAG) is a collection of open source web applications written using a variety of technologies, including PHP and ASP.NET.

Applications in the WAG give you a great head start where someone else has written a lot of the code for you and is allowing you to freely use it on your site.

WebMatrix makes the process of downloading, installing and configuring this code easy.

Site From Template: A number of simple template sites that you can customize and change.

Site From Folder: If you have a collection of web files already and you want to edit and run them on a web server quickly

Creating web sites with WebMatrix Using Template option

Choose the Site From Template option and see dialog option below

When you press OK, WebMatrix will create a new, empty, web site for you. This web site will then be loaded into the WebMatrix editor.

Having a server built-in to Web Matrix makes it very easy for you to develop your web site in a way that behaves exactly like a web server on the internet

The server is serving this site at the address http://localhost:8946, which means that the host for the server is local, i.e. your development machine.

Site button

It gives you details on your web site, such as the URL of the site, and other tools that you can use such as monitoring your site requests.

Files ButtonWebMatrix will now open the Files workspace, and because you don’t have any files in your web site yet, it looks pretty empty.

It allows you to add a file to your site, or you can use the New button in the toolbar to create a new file.

The Choose a Add File to your site dialog which gives you lots of choices for lots of different file types used on the web.

Choose the HTML file type, and call it default.html and press OK. WebMatrix will now create a simple HTML file and open it for you

Edit your page so that it looks like this:<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>My Favorite Movies</title></head><body> <h1>A list of my Favorite Movies</h1> <ol> <li>It's a wonderful life</li> <li>Lord of the Rings</li> <li>The Fourth World</li> <li>The Lion King</li> </ol></body></html>

WebMatrix toolbar you’ll see a ‘Run’ button

WebMatrix will launch your browser, and open the web site running on your local server

What is WebServer???

A web server is a special piece of software that listens for requests for data over the internet, and answers by delivering that data, usually to a web browser.

Webmatrix integrates a web server called IIS Express

IIS Express install automatically while web matrix Installing

Web Server

Look down at the system tray of your PC, and you’ll see a little icon indicating that IIS Express, the web server, is running.

Right click on it, and you’ll see that it is running your Movies site

Deploying your site

Finding a Hosting Provider

you can just go straight to http://www.microsoft.com/web/hosting where you'll find the full gallery of web hosting providers with a variety of offers to suit your needs

Signing up with a Hosting ProviderI'm going to use Cytanium, because they have a free hosting offer for WebMatrix

Just visit their site and click the friendly 'Free Signup' button

Configuring WebMatrix to Publish to Cytanium

You'll get an email from noreply@cytanium.com

Scroll down through this email and you'll find a section called 'WebMatrix - WebDeploy (preferred)' – it should look something like this:

Open the sites workspace in WebMatrix, and find the 'Publish' button. Drop it down by clicking the arrow at the bottom of it, and select 'Settings'

The publish settings will open. Fill out the details that you got from the email:

Click 'Validate Connection to make sure that the settings are correct

If they are you should see a 'Connected Successfully' tick as above.Click 'Save' to exit the Publish Settings dialog.Now, drop down the 'Publish' button again, and this time select 'Publish’...'

You'll see a 'Publish Preview' screen where WebMatrix determines the changes on your site. Depending on what you've done recently

Publishing will start, and you'll see its progress in the yellow bar at the bottom of the WebMatrix window. When it's done you'll see that it's complete, and for convenience you'll get the URL of the finished site:

Viewing your site online

Just select the URL http://laurencemoro02.webmatrix01.cytanium.com/dataMovies.cshtml

When you do this, you'll see your site running, live, on the Internet:

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