Sending Mail using PHP and IIS 7 Express (Windows 7)

If you are using FastCGI PHP with IIS 7 Express and Microsoft Webmatrix (under Windows 7 say), you might briefly wonder how to configure the SMTP server settings to send out PHP mail() requests. The answer is, of course, no differently than you would normally do it – use the php.ini file settings. Don’t get [...]

JavaScript IntelliSense & VS11 Express Beta for Web

I came across a nice little article entitled: “Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web“ about the new features that Microsoft snuck into Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web. Having read this, I wanted to dwell a little more and expand on the Intellisense aspect for JavaScript, for [...]

Microsoft WebMatrix

As a third free alternative (with reference to my two previous posts on the subject) to creating and editing HTML5/CSS 3.0/Javascript sites, Microsoft WebMatrix, currently available as either a release version, or a Version 2 Beta, is also worth a look. This doesn’t have a WYSIWYG interface, so you’ll be working in source mode throughout. [...]

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web

In my last post, I wrote about enabling HTML5 tags and CSS 3.0 styles in Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2011* 2010 Express, using an unofficial Microsoft patch. Well now you can skip directly to downloading Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web to get the same functionality, without patching, as well as some nice [...]

HTML5+CSS3 with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express edition makes for a pretty decent HTML editor, giving you a WYSIWYG development environment complete with IntelliSense prompts for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With support for the HTML5 and CSS3 standards, things are now even better. All you have to do is apply the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service [...]