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Well, as neowin first leaked a couple of months back, microsoft have released an excellent little tool for asp editing, which is now know as "asp.NET Web Matrix". I got an email today from a friend on the team, who has some further information for us.

They have now released (officially ;)) the program which you can get at the link below. They also have on the site a number of screenshots, along with a walk through, and a online book for people to look at. When i got the file when it was in a very much alpha stage- it was pritty rocking -so i recommend all neowinians to check it out -less than a meg, and very stable. Also - its got an inbuilt IIS server - so you can test it all out locally (no before you ask you cant run your websites of it! you can only access it via the localhost address).

Check the download link for more info, and who knows... another special neowin exlcusive on this program might be on its way.....

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ASP.NET Page Designer. Rapidly create ASP.NET pages using the rich WYSIWYG designer. Drag and drop ASP.NET Server controls from the Toolbox onto your page. Select individual server controls to get in-place designer editing support as well as full property grid customization. Simply double-click a server control to get automatic event wireup of server event handlers.

SQL and MSDE Database Management. Integrated support to create and edit SQL and MSDE databases. Create new databases, add/edit/delete tables and stored procedures, and edit data content all directly within the Web Matrix tool. Auto-generate ADO.NET code to execute SQL statements and stored procedures using built-in code builders.

Easy Data Bound UI Generation. Web Matrix makes it easy to create data bound pages without writing code. Drop SQL tables on your page to create data-bound grids, or start with Data Page templates for reports or Master/Detail pages. Code builders help you generate code to select, insert, update and delete SQL data.

XML Web Services Support. Easily add XML Web Service support to your applications. Web Matrix provides support for developers to easily expose a SOAP-based XML Web Service, as well as call and consume a XML Web Service hosted on another server.

Build Mobile Applications. Write mobile-web-enabled applications for a wide variety of mobile devices such as cell phones, pagers and PDAs. Web Matrix provides drag-and-drop design support for authoring mobile pages using ASP.NET and the Mobile Internet Toolkit.

Projectless File and FTP Workspaces. Web Matrix supports both FTP-based and file-based workspaces that allow developers to easily organize and edit their ASP.NET applications. Simply double-click a file within the workspace tree to open it for editing. No FrontPage server extensions or project system required.

Development Web Server. Develop and test your ASP.NET applications, without requiring IIS. Web Matrix includes a lightweight personal web server that serves most web content, including ASP.NET pages and XML Web Services, for local requests.

Community Integration. Web Matrix provides a built-in gateway to the ASP.NET community right within the IDE -- allowing you to browse community web sites and search the ASP.NET Forums and Newsgroups for help.