Chapter 17: Beyond Web Matrix

Overview

The previous chapters in this book have looked at everything from the initial installation of the environment required to create our applications, through the development of web pages, and on to more advanced tasks such as creating web services. Now that we've covered most of the functionality offered to us by Web Matrix, in this final chapter of the book, we'll see what options are open to us going forwards, and how Web Matrix fits into the big picture of developing web applications. There are obviously many aspects and issues involved in the provision of such applications, but we'll focus on those that are most relevant at this point, rather than those that only apply to large-scale or uncommon projects. The topics that we'll concentrate on are:

• The limitations of Web Matrix when compared to other web development software

• How we can move applications from our local machine, where we develop them, to live web servers where they can be made visible to the public

• The resources available to us on the Web to give us extra information and support when creating our applications