WebMatrix Suggestions
We’re looking for your feature ideas to make WebMatrix more awesome! One idea per entry, please.
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Ruby on Rails
In addition to PHP, support for Ruby (and Rails) would be awesome!
319 votesLet’s see how many votes this gets!
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Please add support for SFTP
If we are trying to pull PHP devs who work on Linux/Solaris in a corp environment support for ssh is a must. I need to be able to connect webmatrix to my remote systems. FTP is forbidden plain and simple. The fact that it is encouraged through an IDE is down right neglagent on MS part!
191 votesHello,
Thanks for the feedback. Our recommendation for secure publishing is to use the Web Deploy protocol, but you are right in that SSH/SFTP is used more widely.
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Go To Definition on JavaScript file, CSS rules
add support for "Go To Definition" on JavaScript functions across multiple files (for example: into jQuery functions), CSS rules
147 votesYes. We like this very much. More votes please.
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Python\django
I'm really want :)
102 votesGood idea! Let’s see how many people want this.
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Ability to disable IIS Integration and just provide a localhost URL/port for testing sites
So people would use the HTTP Server of their choice like Apache or nginx.
90 votesThis is an interesting idea; we’ll think about it for our next release!
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PostgreSQL support
In addition to the MySQL support, it would be great, if WebMatrix would support PostgreSQL databases too.
88 votesGreat idea!
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Have a ignore files setting in the Publish wizard
It would be nice to be able to easily exclude certain files when publishing, like for example web.config. But it could also be other kinds of files and folders (.git , .svn).
85 votesGood idea – rules for source control exclusion would likely be different, but I like the concept.
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Add HTML special character intellisense.
WebMatrix is missing some very useful intellisence.
By typing & it should offer a list of HTML special characters to be added.
81 votesGreat idea!
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Multi Monitor Support
It would be great if there was a Multi Monitor Support like in Visual Studio 2010.
81 votesGood idea! Let’s see how many votes we get.
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TypeScript intellisense
WebMatrix is great and TypeScript intellisense would make it even better. Coloring is here, but without code completion it hardly can claim TypeScript support.
62 votesWe’re looking into bringing the full experience to WebMatrix, but wanted to just start with syntax highlighting. If there’s enough interest, this is something we could surely do!
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Refactoring: Update variable name
(ported from Connect)
In Visual Studio 2010 When selecting a variable by the cursor, all presence of this variable is highlighted in the file. And when the we try to change a variable or function name, Visual Studio prompts the user to update the name of all matching variable in the file.
is there any possibility to add these two functions??
--Ayman Abd El Halim
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Extension to support SQLite
Native support or the possibility to expand the program functionality via plugins so third parties would develop a wrapper for those databases.
52 votesActually, we currently do support MySQL databases in WebMatrix. In order for this to function, you need to either install an application that uses MySQL, like Wordpress, or use Web Platform Installer to install the MySQL connector manually.
Once those pieces are in place, you can go to the Databases workspace and connect to a MySQL database just like any other.
We’ll take this as a recommendation to add SQLite support; thanks!
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Allow to select language other than the system's
Even if English chosen in Web PI the program use the system's language.
51 votesWe’ve heard this feedback before – we will consider this for a future release.
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Allow custom templates to be made
I would like the option to save a site as a template so that it appears in the template page for new sites. For example I have loads of plugins and settings that I always install with Wordpress so this would allow me to save that as a template.
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Auto Recognition of CMS Type on Open as a website in WebMatrix
It would be good if for example i download WordPress, or Joomla or ... have a site that is made in WordPress already for Webmatrix to automatically converts it to WordPress project when i open it so the folders are locked, wordpress intelli sense and all other stuff. This isn't possible with current projects just when you install new one from gallery.
48 votesLet’s see how many votes this gets.
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A menu option/status bar button to convert between encodings a la Notepad++
At least, between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8, but every supported encoding by Windows is preferred
44 votesInteresting, let’s see how many others would use this feature!
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Add support for alternate ports on MySQL databases
WebMatrix currently supports deployment to MySQL databases that uses the standard 3306 port.
Even if you use a connection string including the "Port" variable, it is ignored and configuration proceeds using 3306.
It would be useful for people who use alternate ports for security purposes if we could deploy sites as currently this has to be worked around using alternate network configurations.
44 votesThe webdeploy package we use from wordpress doesn include the port for the database connection string as a parameter that can be changed at publish time. This was an oversight, and we’re going to work to get this updated. In the interim, you can modify the port in wp-config.php, publish with the port set, and then switch back to your local MySQL port. We know this is less than ideal, and we’re looking into it.
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WebMartix 2 | Add JSLint
It would be a good ides to add jslint as a part of the app
42 votesWe would like to add this. Let’s get some votes!
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/ make /> are missing in webmatrix
if I write <link / then it's will change to <link/> (automatically close after / ) in v1. it's not worked in webmatrix 2 rc.
42 votesIf there is enough interest, we can add this back
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Ctrl+click on a method, a la Eclipse or Netbeans that leads to a method or variable declaration/implementation. But don't make the IDE slow!
Both Eclipse and Netbeans, or even Zend Studio, have the possibility to press Ctrl and click on a method/variable and this will pop-up a choice of files where this method/variable is defined/implemented.
It is really useful, but I think also one of the reasons why these consume so much memory and are so slow. If you can bring this feature without hurting performance, please do!
40 votesWe like this idea too. Bring on the votes!
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