Project Motivation: ASP.NET Web Matrix Project is a fairly new tool for developing Web Applications just for ASP.NET. As I did more research on it, I realized it has a lot of potential for a starter who is trying to get started into Web application development and is new to ASP.NET. Since I am quite new to ASP.NET, I felt I could learn a lot from creating an application which would also enable me to demonstrate the process of the Multimedia Software Engineering Methodology. For my term project in this class, I plan to utilize this tool to create an application that a user can log into to receive their daily horoscopes along with some other added features I will discuss later.
Thoughts Before Starting the Project: I feel this project is worth doing with Web Matrix because it will give me a chance to learn a lot about the process of learning a new development tool still in beta testing, applying the methods of designing and implementing, and coming up with the desired product at the end. It will give me good experience and it should also be quite fun. Whatever I have used with Web Matrix in the last few weeks seems to be quite appealing and so I would like to take this opportunity to explore it even more and hopefully learn something new!
Web Matrix makes building ASP applications significantly easier than other tools available. If you've never tried ASP.NET before, then I think Web Matrix is a good place to start. It also generates HTML for you which is pretty useful and you can either directly edit the HTML code or make changes in the Design view . A couple of drag-and-drop operations can create a simple but functional Web application. Another useful feature is that it contains various views of an ASP.NET Web page: both the source code and HTML, just the HTML, just the source code, and WYSIWYG Designer. So far I have a really good impression of this tool, but I will only know more as I start to build the following application I have in mind.