It was great fun presenting the Web Platform overview to the folks over at the Microsoft Web Hosting Roadshow this Tuesday 9th of December. I know a lot of you were PHP developers so I hope it was a useful overview of the Microsoft technologies. Scroll down to the post if you want to download the slides. The slides and information for the other sessions are available on www.microsoft-web.net.

To start I would like to highlight some of the resources regarding PHP integration:

• LINQ for PHP by Maarten Balliauw
• MS Ajax Library for PHP

I also want to point out some of the resources I mentioned during the presentation:

Development tools

• Visual Studio Express versions
• Expression Web – trial version here
• Expression Blend – trial version here
  To design your Silverlight 2 applications you will need to download and apply SP1 to Expression Blend. Download here.

Technologies

• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Ajax
• Silverlight – get started with the needed tools and the learning videos on this site
• Windows Live services
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

The Silverlight demos

• Hard Rock Cafe – Memorabilia
• MS Health – Patient Demostrator
• Deep zoom sample – Obama Headlines

And here are the slides for download: