Designed for the unique needs of the new Web Developer, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition provides a fun, easy to use, easy to learn tool for building dynamic Web applications.

Features:

• Enjoy a streamlined development environment that is focused on the needs of hobbyists, enthusiasts, and students.
• Use a developer tool that grows with you—by simply upgrading within the Visual Studio product line as your development needs grow.
• Provides everything you need to begin building Web applications out of the box.
• Create great looking and easy-to-use Web applications using an intuitive, WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop user interface designer.
• Take advantage of more than 60 new reusable controls and hundreds of reusable code snippets to reduce the time needed to create engaging, interactive Web applications.
• Use Master Pages to manage a consistent site layout in one place.
• Let IntelliSense give you fast access to methods and libraries for use within your applications.
• Common Tasks and Smart Tags place commonly accessed Web building functionality one click away.
• Build your first dynamic, data-driven Web site.
• Design your databases and queries visually using a drag-and-drop data designer.
• Use time-saving Wizards to easily connect to your data.
• Connect user interfaces to data using “drag and drop” instead of having to write code.
• Find great hosting offers for applications you build using Visual Web Developer Express.
• Use built-in copy-Web functionality to get your Web site live in minutes over FTP.

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XAMPP project is a very easy to install Apache distribution for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

Many people know from their own experience that it´s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

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PSPad editor is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, Code Explorer and much more.

The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, Python etc.) and you can further customize the syntax settings. PSPad includes several additional tools that are especially useful for HTML editing (compress, format code) and also integrates TopStyle Lite and TidyHTML. The program can be used as IDE for any compiler.

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Free web editor especially for beginners and non-web-technical people. It uses “content + template = a web site”. No need to code HTML. What You See Is What You Get. No need to design. Get a nice looking by a ready-made or custom-made web template. No need to learn. It allows anyone to update, create and publish web content easily. No need to wait. Start to use Ewisoft Web Builder to control your web site and your budget now!

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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

Create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages.

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Notepad++ is a free source editor and Notepad replacement with the syntax highlighting.

It also gives the extra functionality to the general user: colorize the user defined words. You can print your source code in color (or whatever you want) if you have a color printer (WYSIWYG). Furthermore, Notepad++ includes the multi-view feature, which allows the user to edit the different documents at the same time, and even edit the same document synchronously in 2 different views.

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Website Thumbnail Capture creates thumbnail images of websites, downloads underlying HTML source code and saves it all to your hard drive. The software allows to load and save up to a thousand websites at once and create galleries of thumbshots. Several image output format sizes are supported.

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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

Create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages.

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PSPad Editor is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, Code Explorer and much more.

The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, Python etc.) and you can further customize the syntax settings. PSPad includes several additional tools that are especially useful for HTML editing (compress, format code) and also integrates TopStyle Lite and TidyHTML. The program can be used as IDE for any compiler.

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WAMP5 is a service manager that installs Apache, PHP5, MySQL database, PHPmyadmin and SQLitemanager on your computer. It´s principal aim is to allow you to easily discover the new version of PHP: PHP5. WAMP5 comes with a service manager installed as a tray icon. It allows you to manage WAMP5 and access all services.

When you install WAMP5, all the files are copied in the directory you choose. Conf files are then modified to point to that directory. It also installs a “www” directory which will be your Document Root.

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