Hello folks
Let's discuss some of the amazing enhancements and new features of VS 2013 (RC) in general and mostly related to web technologies.
- VS IDE Changes:
- Feedback Icon
- Notification symbol
- Sign In option to save your profile
- Tools->Options is now searchable and resizable
- Productivity Improvements:
- Enhanced Scroll Bar
- Auto Brace Completion
- Move the code by ALT + UP/Down Aero key
- Peek Definition
- ASP.NET Enhancements:
- Browsers Link (Bi-direction connection between VS and browser using Signal-R)
- Signal-R internally uses Web Sockets(HTML 5 API) when it's available of Injects through java script.
- Browsers Link Dashboard to manage tasks.
- Unused CSS can be identified using Snapshot CSS USES option in browser link
- Java Script Editor Changes:
- Methods lookup like C# Editor
- IntelliSense inside JavaScript for CSS/Html
- Enforce Coding Standard by JSHint (comes with Web Essentials, setting can be modified)
- HTML Editor Changes:
- IntelliSense Inside quotes.
- Auto HTML entities popup when type &
- Zen Coding supported using Web Essentials
- Move to HTML using ALT+1 and ALT+2 using Web Essentials
- Insert parent tags using ALT+SHIFT+W using Web Essentials
- Improved Smart tags to do regular tasks (e.g. Remove and Keep Children) uniformed across VS using CTRL + .
- Auto Formatting of tag when inserted in new line using Web Essentials (instead of CTRL+K, CTRL+D.
- CSS Editor Changes:
- IntelliSense for CSS Ids inside file.
- IntelliSense for Class name inside file
- IntelliSense for html elements across project
I have explored these features by downloading Visual Studio 2013 (RC). You can also try the same by downloading from below link
https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2013-editions
You can also download Web Essentials from below link.
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/56633663-6799-41d7-9df7-0f2a504ca361
Please let me know which feature u like the most :)
Look forward to your comments/suggestions.
Thanks