Today I was creating a new Virtual PC to do some ASP.Net MVC programming. After duplicating my standard image I went to http://www.asp.net/mvc/download/ and was preparing myself to download a couple of installers. Then I saw a button in the top left corner that said: Install Now with the Microsoft Web platform installer.

Web Platform Installer is like a stack. It enables you to install everything you need to start web developing at once and then some more.

This made getting my development machine up and running much easier. It also introduced me to some tools I had never heard of before, which is a big plus aswell.