Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 web tools

With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 Beta and its availability for download, there would be many who would be thinking what are the new features and improvements that are coming to Visual Studio 2010. Yesterday, I watched a video on channel 9 regarding the improvements that were made in the web tools for VS 2010.  So in this post, I would be sharing with you what I learned from that video and what are the new features coming to web tools.

All of you who have done and are doing web development using Microsoft technology might remember the burdensome task of remembering and writing HTML and Javascript code. Well this painful job just got easier. That is right, now VS2010 has enabled and powered the intellisense to sense and display HTML and Javascript snippet. The smart intellisense can be used to insert snippets for single tags such as the <a> and <img> tags. It gets better, you can also use the intellisense to insert multi tag snippets such as  <asp: List View > tag.

In addition to this, the intellisense also supports inserting the complete Page directives such as the directive used for registering user controls. The same intellisense supports inserting snippets for DOCTYPE as well.

Working with Javascript libraries is likely to become easier. The Visual Studio 2010 contains a dynamic JavaScript IntelliSense engine that infers the return type from functions and provides intellisense accordingly.

Also improvements have been made to the Deployment part, which I might be covering in a separate post. That is all for now.