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Has anyone checked out Microsoft's Web Matrix? Apparently it works with Drupal.. just wanted to know if anyone has used it and if so, what are their thoughts?

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

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nevets commented

Watching the intro video I am not sure I see the benefit when using Drupal

a) It seems to use/rely on IIS. While Drupal will run under IIS I have found apache a better choice.

b) It seems to be the back end for the website, it it not clear from the video how this works with Drupal.

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ribe commented

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bserem commented

in the last Drupalcamp in Athens (hosted and sponsored by Microsoft, among others) we had a session about all these new MS tools

WebMatrix (as I see it) is the tool to write your code, with syntax highlighting, file management, deployment options etc
It supports PHP and in the webgallery there is a download for Acquia Drupal. See it like an editor (or an IDE to be more precise).
It is supposed to be very simple and easy to use and the main idea of the campaing is that all this power is available to you through "one-click installs".
Haven't tried it myself, but I will do so sometime. I'm still writting code with Notepad++ but I'll have no problem changing to something better (if I find something better).

All these steps from Microsoft are of great meaning because the company has put a lot of thought on them.
Yes Apache might be a better solution, but MS wants you to know that Drupal runs great on IIS7+ and PHP5 runs great on it as well.
They offer a lot of power and options and they tried/try to do it easy for everybody to use it no matter where he comes from (you can even use your rewrite rules from apache on IIS etc).

As I see it: I am not going away from my Linux host, but Webmatrix might be a really good dev-environment for Windows.

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http://srm.gr - Drupal Implementor

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mr1 commented

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