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You can also then within the html source editor select any HTML you want, right-click, and choose to “Format Selection”. This will control what the html source will look like when you add it in the designer (for example: drag/drop from a toolbox). You can set both the defaults for capitalization rules, indentations, whitespace, etc for elements:Īs well as customize default formatting settings on a per-element or control basis: You can now specify and control precisely how your HTML will look when you add it to a page. This also makes it much easier to navigate around deeply nested HTML documents and figure out where elements start and end. If you click on (or navigate onto) any element within the html editor, we will now bold both it and its end tag: Makes dealing with lots of content much cleaner. Note that you can have multiple levels of collapsing – so you could expand the above GridView to see more of its contents, but still have one of its templates inside collapsed. For example, the GridView in the below screen-shot is collapsed to hide all of its inner content: What is then cool is that when you click on any of the elements in the navigator it will highlight them (and optionally allow you to highlight the inner contents).Ĭontainer elements in HTML are now collapsible (and expandable) using +/- gestures in the left hand side of the editor.

This can be super-useful with large html documents.įor example: here is a screenshot of what it looks like when I copy/pasted in some html from the my. website (which has a lot of html): This makes it much easier to figure out “where am I in a document”, and figure out the nesting relationships of elements quickly (“am I in this div/table or a deeper nested one?”). If any of these tags has an ID value, it will also include that value as well (for example: div#myidvalue). It updates as you move around a document, and always shows the complete parent chain of html tags from the root element to the location where the cursor currently is. (note: this was a real pain with VS 2003).Īt the bottom of an html or asp.net source-view document is a new control called the “tag-navigator”. Simply register the control using a standard directive at the top of the page, and VS will also use reflection to provide intellisense within the html editor.

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The new web project system will dynamically compile and use reflection to figure out what properties are exposed on the user-control.Ĭustom compiled controls no longer need to jump through schema registration hoops to get intellisense either. ascx user-control on a page that has a custom “Foo” property: For example, the below screen-shot shows the intellisense I get when consuming an. We now (automatically) support HTML editor based intellisense for any control or user-control used within the project.

Intellisense for User Controls and Custom Controls (no special work required): You can also easily add your own schemas to VS if you want to modify any of the built-in ones or publish your own. Note that the default schema validation value for new web projects is now XHTML Transitional.

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This will then update all HTML/client intellisense settings (so you only see those elements/attribute/script object model values legal for the particular schema target you have picked): There is now a device drop-down list in the toolbar that allows you to easily toggle between the different schemas: You can now automatically vary the HTML + client-script intellisense you receive in the editor based on either a standards based schema (html 4.01, xhtml transitional, xhtml strict, etc) or for a specific browser device (IE 6.0, etc).

Standards and Browser Based HTML/Script Intellisense: We also support intellisense now within web.config files. We also obviously support intellisense client-side script (more on that next), as well as any XML file with a DTD or XML Schema. We now support it for CSS style blocks (in additional to external CSS files):

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We now support it for code blocks and nuggets: We now support it for ASP.NET directives:

We now support intellisense everywhere within the HTML editor.

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All but one of the features are in the free Visual Web Developer Express version that you can download. Below are a few of the cool new features it enables (none of these were in VS 2003). We spent a lot of time in Visual Web Developer and VS 2005 focusing on delivering a really great HTML source editing experience (we also did a lot in design-view – but this blog post is just about the HTML source editor).