With the launch today at MIX09 of Microsoft's Windows Web Application Gallery we
are thrilled to announce that Umbraco is already integrated with this excellent
platform. We worked hand-in-hand with the Microsoft Web Team
to quickly integrate the latest Umbraco release (4.0) with the
Windows Web Application Gallery.
With Microsoft's revision to the Web
Platform Installer and Web Deployment technologies we believe
the case for building your web solution on the Microsoft Web
Platform is irrefutable. (We at Motus Connect have made this
assertion from the founding of out practice.) Using the Web
Platform Installer a user can now install and configure all the
components of a web solution (even a PHP-MySQL solution!) using a
single interface - the enormity of this set in when I was setting
up a new web server and wanted to install the Microsoft Web
Platform, MySql, ASP.NET MVC, and Umbraco. Until now that
process entailed visiting numerous different web sites (Microsoft,
CodePlex, SourceForge) and individually installing the components
of the platform - it is not an understatement to say that it was a
real pain in the bum!
Enter Web Platform Installer - now I can get all of
the above components (including Umbraco!) from a single source, within a single
interface. What's more, the Web Platform Installer does more
than just gather the various downloads into a single interface, it
installs and configures the components based on the best practices
as provided by each component's author. For Umbraco, we set
the required ACL's, connection strings, and database security as
part of the install. No more slogging through a 30+ page
installation guide. Just click, click, click and bam!
you've gone from zero to web app in a few minutes and can get on
with the business of doing what you do best - creating web
solutions (unless you *like* installing web components).
For web developers this is no small thing as is stands to
significantly boost our productivity. For the Umbraco project this
is a fantastic development as more exposure is always a good
thing. As we who are involved with Umbraco on a daily basis
know; once you've had Umbraco it's *really* hard to go back to
another CMS/Framework. Umbraco's presence in the Windows Web
Application Gallery allows Umbraco to stand side-by-side with its
peers Drupal, and DNN; and will allow even more web developers to
discover and fall in love with the Friendly CMS.
Go check out the Web
Application Installer and the Windows Web Application Gallery now. If
you just want to get on with it, here's the direct link to Web
Platform Installer for Umbraco
-Paul