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03 Oct, 2009

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Posted by: Peter In: ASP.NET|Web

I recently needed to setup a new ASP.NET development environment and deiced to give Microsofts Web Platform Installer 2.0 a chance. I had actually never heard about this product before, but what it does is installing .NET, the needed development libraries, and the express versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server. It required three reboots, but in total it saved me a lot of time!



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