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The Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 is now available!

November 1st, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments

The IIS team is proud to announce the latest release of the Web Deployment Tool Beta 2, which includes significant new features for both IT professionals and developers. In addition to our existing functionality of server synchronization and migration, but we’ve added web application packaging and deployment with integration with IIS Manager and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010!

Because the Beta 2 release has brand-new functionality around application packaging not previously available, this release is not a production-ready or Go Live release. We will be changing and adding more functionality in the next milestone after Beta 2.

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ASP vs. PHP

October 10th, 2008 Jigish Thakar 1 comment

When building web sites, ASP and PHP are very popular languages. Here’s my opinion on whether ASP or PHP is best.

Both ASP and PHP are languages used to build Dynamic Web sites that can interact with Databases and exchange information. ASP (Active Server Pages) is from Microsoft and is used with IIS (Internet Information Server) that runs on Microsoft Servers. PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is from Rasmus Lerdorf, who originally designed this parsing language which was later modified by different people. It runs on Unix and Linux servers and it also has an NT server version. Read more…