Web Platform Installer

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Web Platform Installer
Developer Microsoft
Initial releaseJanuary 21, 2009 (2009-01-21)
Final release
5.0 / February 14, 2013;12 years ago (2013-02-14) [1]
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 [1]
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 discontinued freeware, closed-source package management system developed by Microsoft that installs non-commercial development tools and their dependencies that are part of Microsoft Web Platform, including:

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Microsoft announced Web PI in October 2008 and offered for download a release candidate build of the software the following month. [12] [13] The company released version 1.0 of Web PI on January 21, 2009. [14] The ability to install third-party software was added in version 2.0, released September 24, 2009. [9] [15] As of July 2015, Web PI can install 82 titles. [16] 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. [17]

In 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. [18] [19]

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. [20] 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).

InfoWorld writer Serdar Yegulalp called Web PI most comparable with Softaculous's AMPPS and wrote that, while not fully compatible with the WAMP model on account of lacking support for installing Apache HTTP Server, it came close by "help[ing] accelerate Web development on Windows platforms by deploying many non-Microsoft stack elements" such as PHP, Perl, and MySQL. He liked its ability to work as a staging server but took umbrage with its inability to locally edit remotely published sites not themselves deployed from Web PI. [19]

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) has been retired since July 1, 2022. [21]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Microsoft Web Platform Installer 5.0". microsoft.com. Microsoft . Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Freeman, Eric; Elisabeth Robson (2011). Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript. O'Reilly Media. p. 231. ISBN   9781449331511 – via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 3 Krill, Paul (January 22, 2009). "Microsoft offers download tool for Web developers". InfoWorld.com. IDG Publications. Archived from the original on November 22, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Chadwick, Jess (2011). Programming Razor. O'Reilly Media. p. 11. ISBN   9781449317164 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Brown, Pete (2012). Silverlight 5 in Action. Manning. p. 13. ISBN   9781617290312 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Brodkin, Jon (March 1, 2011). "PHP user group lauds Microsoft's open source contributions". Network World. IDG Publications. Archived from the original on November 22, 2025.
  7. ↑ Brazell, Aaron (2011). WordPress Bible. Wiley. p. 46. ISBN   9781118077245 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Wahlberg, Nik; Paul Sterling (2011). Umbraco User's Guide. Wiley. p. 4. ISBN   9781118108093 – via Google Books.
  9. 1 2 Foley, Mary Jo (March 22, 2009). "Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0". ZDNET. Ziff-Davis. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020.
  10. ↑ Staff writer (May 3, 2010). "Microsoft contributes to open source CMS project". Linux Gram. G2 Computer Intelligence – via Gale.
  11. ↑ Taft, Darryl K. (September 28, 2011). "Microsoft Delivers WebMatrix 2 Beta". eWeek. Ziff-Davis. Archived from the original on November 22, 2025.
  12. ↑ Taft, Darryl K. (October 16, 2008). "Microsoft, OpenLogic Further Open-Source Efforts". eWeek. Ziff-Davis. Archived from the original on November 22, 2025.
  13. ↑ Taft, Darryl K. (January 21, 2009). "Microsoft Releases Web Platform Installer". eWeek. Ziff-Davis.
  14. ↑ Feldman, David (2013). Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint. O'Reilly Media. pp. 483–485. ISBN   9781449324674 – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Foley, Mary Jo (September 23, 2009). "Microsoft makes Web development tools available for free". ZDNET. Ziff-Davis. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ Windows Web App Gallery - Featured Apps. Microsoft.com. Retrieved on 2015-02-06.
  17. ↑ Download the Microsoft Web Platform. Microsoft.com (2013-02-14). Retrieved on 2015-02-06.
  18. ↑ Grehan, Rick (November 3, 2010). "InfoWorld preview: WebMatrix ramps up ASP.Net development". InfoWorld.com. IDG Publications. Archived from the original on November 22, 2025.
  19. 1 2 Yegulalp, Serdar (May 30, 2012). "Review: WAMP stacks for Web developers". InfoWorld.com. IDG Publications. Archived from the original on May 25, 2025.
  20. ↑ Web Platform Installer v5 Command Line (WebPICMD.exe) - RTW release : The Official Microsoft IIS Site Archived 2022-01-27 at the Wayback Machine . Iis.net (2012-08-26). Retrieved on 2018-12-18.
  21. ↑ "Web Platform Installer - End of support and sunsetting the product/application feed". IIS Team Blog. Microsoft. June 8, 2021.
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