Teach yourself how to write a simple Web Application using WebMatrix, CSS, HTML, HTML5, ASP.NET, SQL, Databases and more in just a couple of hours.

In this series of articles, you will learn how to build a simple web application that is used to manage a list of your favorite movies. While it is simple, it will demonstrate many of the capabilities of a full web application, including using a database to drive the content, and provide functionality to allow your users to add to the database, and edit and delete data. (You may have heard the term CRUD – Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, now you’ll learn how to do it in WebMatrix!)

You’ll also learn how to deploy your application using WebDeploy and hosting providers within WebMatrix!

Contents

Part 1 introduces you to WebMatrix and how you can install and use it.

Part 2 teaches you how to create your first Web Page using WebMatrix.

Part 3 gets you started with CSS and style sheets so you can make your page more beautiful.

Part 4 teaches you layout and how you can use layout in WebMatrix for common code across your pages.

Part 5 is all about data, where you’ll learn how to use a database in your web page, and make it more dynamic.

Part 6 shows you how to build a page that allows your users to add data to your database, so your site can render it.

Part 7 builds on this to show you how you can have a page to edit your database, and see the changes updated automatically.

Part 8 finishes off the application by showing you how to create a delete page for your data

Part 9 shows you how to publish your site to the internet using WebMatrix.