Windows Web Application Gallery
March 18th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, iisI stumbled across something today I think is pretty cool: the Windows Web Application Gallery. From iis.net:
The Windows Web Application Gallery makes it easy to explore, discover and install popular community ASP.Net and PHP applications on Windows. Users can browse and view applications for different types of Web sites, ranging from photo galleries to blogs to ecommerce sites.
The Web Application Gallery integrates with the Web Platform Installer 2.0, so that when a user clicks “Install” for an application, the Web Platform Installer 2.0 launches with context set on the user’s selection. This powerful combination of application discovery and simplified installation makes it easier than ever for community-based applications to run on Windows.
This has some neat implications. For one, developers can have their stuff put out for the whole world to see – and install in a few clicks. Another, if you run a web server (like me) that has several blogs on it, this could streamline installing, say, WordPress. Or Gallery for your users.
I don’t get terribly excited about some stuff Microsoft does, but this is pretty cool. That is, if it takes off.