Find more about the improvements of Visual Web Developer

Visual Web Developer meets the specific needs of web developers through a new Web profile that exposes a menu and window layout optimized for Web development. The environment includes one of the best HTML source code editor, an improved visual page designer, a new project, better support for working with data, and full XHTML standards support. Taken together, these features allow you to develop data-based Web applications faster and easier than ever.

Then dive in and explore some of the many improvements to the web development that comes with Visual Web Developer.

Best Editing Source Code

Visual Web Developer has an improved HTML editor that allows you to write and modify your pages faster. The code editor provides Intellisense throughout your files and has new navigation features and validation of their brands.

HTML Source Preservation

Visual Web Developer respects your HTML. The format of the HTML markup language - including all white space, casing, indention, carriage returns, and word wrapping - is now preserved exactly as originally written, even when the change back and forth between the source and the design view of the page view. You can completely trust Visual Web Developer does not change their markings.

HTML format options

Visual Web Developer allows you to precisely control the format of all HTML and ASP.NET server control markup generated with the WYSIWYG designer. Now you can configure the tag casing, attribute quotation, indention style and characteristic of every html or server control tag in a page. You can set these formatting options by default for all brands and, optionally, on each format option for each tag-based control. This gives you the flexibility to fully control how you want your brands to be generated.

Label Navigator

The HTML source code editor in Visual Web Developer ships with a new label Navigator that allows developers to easily track their location and navigate within a complex HTML document. The browser displays the label "road" into the source of an HTML page to display a list of all HTML tags that contain the tag where the cursor is currently. Clicking on any of the nodes, optionally, allows developers to change the level of selection, and quickly move up and down a deep HTML hierarchy.

Outline label

Outline label allows you to work more effectively with large HTML documents. Scheme with the label, you can right-click on any HTML tag in the code editor and select Close tag to hide the entire contents of the tag. The collapse of the different regions of the HTML source of a page that appears in makes it easier to focus on the region of the page that you need to edit.

Code Refactoring

Refactoring code lets you easily and systematically make changes to your code. Refactoring code is supported around the world who can write code in both code-behind and single file ASP.NET pages. For example, you can use Code Refactoring automatically promote a public sphere to full ownership.

Intellitask

Intellitask is like a super smart clipboard designed to work with the code. Intellitask improves productivity by allowing you to easily apply standard code snippets anywhere within the code editor. Just right click, you can inject common code into your pages. Visual Web Developer are delivered over 200 web Intellitask specific pieces of code from the box. Better yet, you can add your own templates Intellitask so that you can modify your code in the future.

FTP Support

Visual Web Developer now has support for editing and updating remote web projects using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). You can connect to a remote website using FTP on the new Web site and open dialog.