In case you are interested in developing on the Microsoft platform instead of Apache and MySQL, Web Platform installer is the way to go. Makes it a lot easier to install Visual Studio Express, ASP.Net MVC which otherwise is a real pain sometimes.
Not sure about that. The Web Platform installer has introduced a lot of pain to what used to be fairly simple proceedings. It probably my least favorite application to use.
I set up an Windows 2008 R2 instance on EC2 the other day that did not have IIS7 installed. Even launching the WPI on that instance was painful. IE8 is the default browser, and the default settings in IE wouldn't let you launch the application, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out where the security restrictions were.
So then I went and download Chrome which didn't have the security restrictions, and then I was able to download the WPI and run it.
From within the WPI, I selected IIS7 and .NET 4.0. Ninety minutes later + a reboot or two later IIS7 was installed.
I also don't agree. If you're just screwing around with something, fine. If you're installing something upon which you intend to develop a professional piece of software, you should go through the true install process. Too many Windows developers are far too ignorant of the platforms upon which they develop their code (in general, not pointed at parent at all).
I presume you mean an equivalent to Firebug for IE.
There's Fiddler and Visual Studio, or you can try Firebug Lite.
As far as multiple versions, the only solution I've found is multiple VMs which sucks, but that's what happens when the browser is tightly integrated with the OS.
This is what I've been using but I've found it to be incredibly glitchy, at least on IE8. At times it will recognize an element, sometimes it won't. Sometimes the document fails to load completely in the editor, even though the page has loaded fine in IE.
Yeah, doesn't match the power of firebug. Wondering what if MS packages some modified version of Firefox as their default browser for Windows? This way everyone would be happy. Quite unrealistic but if they can do some kind of modifications to suit them, I would not mind getting anything which isn't IE.
The main thing I miss with the IE developer tools, at least in 8, is that unlike Chrome their JS console doesn't let you expand the results of evaluating JS expressions that return complex objects. It just spits out "<Object>" or something of that sort.
The only thing I do different is using FileZilla for my FTP client. Oh and Dropbox for working on HTML/CSS front-end stuff so team members can see changes in almost real time.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 50.0 ms ] threadI set up an Windows 2008 R2 instance on EC2 the other day that did not have IIS7 installed. Even launching the WPI on that instance was painful. IE8 is the default browser, and the default settings in IE wouldn't let you launch the application, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out where the security restrictions were.
So then I went and download Chrome which didn't have the security restrictions, and then I was able to download the WPI and run it.
From within the WPI, I selected IIS7 and .NET 4.0. Ninety minutes later + a reboot or two later IIS7 was installed.
There's Fiddler and Visual Studio, or you can try Firebug Lite.
As far as multiple versions, the only solution I've found is multiple VMs which sucks, but that's what happens when the browser is tightly integrated with the OS.
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/06/introducin...