Artificial ignorance

Today at MIX 2009, we announced the release and availability of the new Windows Web Application Gallery and the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) 2.0 Beta. 

The Windows Web Application Gallery

The Windows Web Application Gallery (Gallery) provides a streamlined way for users to explore, discover, install and deploy popular Web applications on the Microsoft Web Platform. The Gallery is a community hub of free and popular .NET and PHP applications, some of which may be Open Source, for you to use as building blocks for creating dynamic Web solutions. Our goal here is to accelerate the speed of developing Web solutions for your business – as well as provide all the guidance, building blocks, and products you’ll need to be successful. We will not be storing snapshots of code on Microsoft servers, instead, we point to community servers for the packages which is maintained and supported as part of the community app package. All applications in the Gallery live in an XML feed that is consumed by Web Platform Installer, participating control panel vendors, and any site that wants to integrate with the feed. If you have a free Web application you’d like to add to the Windows Web App Gallery – you can do so – and we’ll market & distribute these apps – your apps – to millions of Windows developers worldwide. Read about the process and documentation for submitting an application to be included in the Windows Web Application Gallery.

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