How To: Web PI and Web Gallery and IIS live in action
1.Real World IIS: Finding and Installing Web Platform Installer 2.0 (videocast).
2.Real World IIS: Staying Current with the Latest Microsoft Web Platform with Web Platform Installer (videocast)
3.Real World IIS: Packaging and Deploying an Open Source Application Using Web Deployment Tool (videocast)
4.Real World IIS: Installing a Free Community Application Using Web Platform Installer (videocast)
These videos cover all the basic information that is needed to get the Web PI and the Web App gallery up and running smoothly. However, that is not the only cool thing about these videos. All the videos are brought to us by the new HTTP streaming mechanism called Smooth Streaming. Trust me it's pretty cool. I have a dead slow connection at my place and yet I was able to watch the videos almost without any interruption. Smooth Streaming dynamically detects your PC and Network conditions and streams the silverlight videos appropriately. What that means is, the better your speed and PC hardware the better quality of video you get.
On the other hand, the web application gallery lets you download and install some of the famous applications on web almost on the fly. Both ASP.Net and PHP. Microsoft has seen to it that the web app gallery includes everything that a beginner requires to kick start a basic website. For those who are not aware of Web PI and Web App Gallery yet, it works with Windows Server 2003 as well. Hope you work with it and deliver some great video content and quality :)
Yes, I am now thinking of including some of this in Tech Ed India as well.
See ya.