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Cbeyond Labs is now offering an exciting FREE Beta opportunity! Sign up today for our Free Cloud Hosting Beta, and experience the cutting edge in shared Cloud Hosting!

With our FREE trial offer you get:
4 web sites
1 Unique Host Header per site
2 Web Workers per site
3 GB of Disk Space
2 50 MB MySQL Databases
2 50 MB MS SQL Databases

Helpful Links

Install many popular free apps via Microsoft's Windows Web App Gallery, or publish your own using Visual Studio 2010 or Microsoft Web Matrix!

Visual Studio 2010 Express: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/
Web Matrix: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

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New Features in WebMatrix 2 Beta

Getting started

WebMatrix is an all-in-one tool that lets you install, develop, optimize, deploy and manage sites from templates or applications.

Opening a remote site

You can now open and edit your sites from remote servers! Make a quick fix in a file, or download the entire site and edit it locally.

Code Your Thoughts


WebMatrix is an all-in-one tool that lets you install, develop, optimize, deploy and manage sites from templates or applications. You can now open and edit your sites from remote servers! Make a quick fix in a file, or download the entire site and edit it locally. You can now open and edit your sites from remote servers! Make a quick fix in a file, or download the entire site and edit it locally.

PHP documentation links


Hover over a PHP function to quickly access php.net documentation.



Application-specific code completion

Get suggestions for functions available in your application of choice. For Beta, you can see a working sample of this by working with WordPress in WebMatrix.

Share with the World


Optimize before sharing

Run reports against your site to learn how to make it rank higher on search engines like Bing or Google.

Get tips for tuning the performance of your site before going live.

Publish your site

You can import a publishing profile without having to remember and enter all those settings. WebMatrix supports publishing using FTP or the new protocol Web Deploy, which supports publishing changed files only, uploading your database and setting up permissions. You can sync changes between local and remote versions, too.

Join the Party


Extensibility framework

Extend WebMatrix functionality using Visual Studio and the new C#-based extensibility APIs.


Extension gallery

View and install available WebMatrix extensions built by you, or contributed by the community.

NuGet package gallery

The popular ASP.NET Web Pages package service is now integrated into WebMatrix. Download and install community-contributed code helpers for common tasks like social network integration and mobile support.