VISUAL STUDIO FEEDS

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext.  The next release of Visual Studio includes a bunch of great code editing features (which I’ll blog about more in the future).  Today’s post covers some small, but nice, productivity improvements coming to the HTML Editor which will make it easy to quickly accomplish common tasks.  In particular, Visual Studio will now support the ability to activate the “smart tasks” features of ASP.NET Server Controls, as well as easily wire up ASP.NET Server Control event handlers - without ever

having to switch to design view.  You can now do these common scenarios equally well in source view. Quick Video of the Features Mads Kristensen has a nice 90 second video that shows off the HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation features in action.  You can watch the 90 second video of these nice improvements here. Below are some more details about the features and screen-shots of them in action. Some Background on Smart Tasks One of the productivity features we added to Visual Studio a few years back...(Read whole news on source site)