There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster . I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smallestdotnet.com and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find, as a small example. Getting a machine up to speed for Web Development is another thing that's kind of a hassle because you need to go get (and know to go get) IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework, yada yada yada. There's a new site at http://www.microsoft.com/ web and a new (beta) of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer ( blog announcement ). It's basically a super bootstrapper that keeps track of where...(read more) ...
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