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We’ve finally reached the end of this tutorial series, and the final step is to now publish the blog we’ve developed onto a production environment. Web Matrix uses the Web Deploy functionality (located at C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2\msdeploy.exe) to deploy web sites locally or remotely.

In this post we’re going to set up a ‘Popular Posts’ section in the right hand column to attract readers to the most interesting content on our blog. This simple tutorial is a good example of linking database tables in WebMatrix and using inner joins to query between them.

In this post, we’ll look at the authentication and authorization capabilities within WebMatrix to secure access to the content management pages to site administrators.

The final section in adding and editing blog posts is to add the functionality to upload a photo with each blog post. To do this we will use the WebMatrix FileUpload helper.

In the last post which described Adding and Editing blog posts, we left out the Category field as linking the relationship in a form is a little more complicated then how the other fields are included. This post shows how to link tables using a foreign key relationship.

We have a blog site which displays blog posts, so now we need to create a section for the blog owner to add, edit and delete posts. We’ll do this with the WebMatrix WebGrid helper, which is an easy to use helper that displays data in a table with full support support for paging, sorting and formatting.

WebMatrix introduces the concept of Helpers, which are components that simplify common tasks in developing a WebMatrix application. The list of Helpers is located at the System.Web.Helpers Namespace at MSDN, and we will be using some of the common ones throughout this series.