Microsoft Developer and Designer Tools

The Microsoft® Web Platform offers the right tools for the right task. Design, build, debug, and deploy websites with WebMatrix, Visual Web Developer® 2010 Express, and Expression® Studio 4 Web Professional. And then test your sites in Windows® Internet Explorer® 9 using the built-in developer tools. Compare features.

Microsoft WebMatrix

Microsoft WebMatrix is a free tool that makes it easy for anyone to create a new web site using a template or an existing free open source application, customize it, and then publish it on the internet via a wide choice of hosting service providers. Learn more about WebMatrix

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free development environment for building, testing and deploying Web standard applications including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services (IIS), Azure and SQL Server. Develop, debug and deploy using ASP.NET Web Pages, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Silverlight and more. Learn more about Visual Web Developer 2010 Express






Microsoft Expression Web 4

Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional includes a complete set of professional design and development tools for creating modern standards-based (including HTML 5 and CSS 3) Web sites, streaming video, Web graphics and frameworks with support for ASP.NET 4 and PHP 5.3. It includes three professional applications that work together: Expression Web, Expression Encoder, and Expression Design. Learn more about Expression Studio 4 Web Professional


Internet Expolorer 9

Internet Explorer 9 offers built-in developer tools make it efficient and easy to examine and debug your site in the browser with features like CSS tracing, JavaScript profiling and network inspection.

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