Popfly Explorer for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express

Unleash the power of Visual Studio upon your Popfly creations with Popfly Explorer. Popfly Explorer is a plug-in for Visual Studio that lets you:

  • Access your Visual Studio solutions from anywhere
  • Share Visual Studio solutions with friends
  • Create Popfly blocks
  • Effortlessly create and host Popfly web sites
  • Add mash-ups to your web pages

Download Popfly Explorer

Getting Started

Popfly Explorer Sign-in
To get started, download and install Popfly Explorer. After installation, Popfly Explorer will appear in Visual Studio. Sign in to your Popfly account, and you're ready to go. Don't have a Popfly account yet? Create one here.

Access Visual Studio Solutions on Popfly

Opening a Visual Studio Solution
Popfly Explorer enables you to quickly and easily store copies of your Visual Studio solutions on Popfly. You can access your creations from any computer with Visual Studio and Popfly Explorer. You can even share your creations with other Popfly users, and find solutions that have been shared by others.

Create Popfly Blocks

Popfly Block Project
Popfly Explorer enables you to develop a Popfly Block from within Visual Web Developer. You can now create Popfly Blocks and benefit from the JavaScript intellisense, XML Schema validation, and debugging support that is provided by Visual Web Developer. Creating a Popfly Block just became a lot easier.

Create Web Sites

Popfly Website Project
Making web sites with Popfly Explorer is incredibly easy. Create your web site with Visual Web Developer, then share it on Popfly with Popfly Explorer. Take a look at the possibilities that open up to you with Popfly Explorer and Visual Web Developer.

Share Your Projects with Your Friends

Share projects
You can share your projects with your friends, check out their latest projects, rate them and leave comments through Popfly.

Potential Future Enhancements

We are working on enabling Popfly Explorer users to publish completed projects with support for hosting Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications directly from Visual Studio. If you want to give us feedback on this, have questions, or other ideas about how we can improve Popfly Explorer, please let us know on the Popfly Explorer discussion forum.

Nutritional Facts

  • Download: Download from Microsoft (requires Popfly membership)
  • Cost: Free
  • Visual Studio Project Types Supported: All
  • System Requirements: Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions or higher required
  • Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista
  • Languages: English
  • Hard Disk: 16MB