Web Platform Installer

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Web Platform Installer
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial releaseJanuary 21, 2009 (2009-01-21) [1]
Final release
5.0 / February 14, 2013;10 years ago (2013-02-14) [2]
Operating system Windows XP SP3 and later
Windows Server 2003 SP2 and later [2]
Platform x86-64, IA-32
Size 4.5 MB
Available in14 languages [2]
List of languages
English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Czech, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Turkish
Type Package management system
License Freeware
Website www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a freeware, closed-source package management system that installs non-commercial development tools and their dependencies that are part of Microsoft Web Platform, including:

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The ability to install third-party software was added in version 2.0, released September 24, 2009. [3] As of July 2015, Web PI can install 82 titles. [4] Web PI 2.0's options are populated dynamically at runtime from Microsoft's servers, allowing installation options to be updated without the need to download newer versions of the Web PI itself. [5]

On July 7, 2010, Microsoft announced Web PI 3 which includes WebMatrix, a new set of integrated tools for web development. Web PI 3 installs additional tools for web development including IIS Developer Express, SQL Server Compact and DotNetNuke.

Web PI features an offline mode where products can be downloaded to a local cache on a machine where internet access is available and then use these cached files on a different machine later. [6] However, Web PI is still not usable in environments where Internet connectivity and local administrator privileges are mutually exclusive (i.e. a given process can either authenticate through a transparent proxy, or can have High or System integrity level, but not both).

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) has been retired since July 1, 2022. [7]

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