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New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 2012 RC

31 May 2012 10:05 AM
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Visual Studio 2012 RC is now available to download. Please visit Jason Zander's Blog for detailed announcement.

We have more web development enhancement and features in RC. We’ll discuss some of them in future blog posts. Here are a few web development enhancements and features in Visual Studio 2012 RC since Beta.

Updated Web project templates

  • New project creation performance is greatly enhanced
  • Cleaner markup
  • Cleaned up Empty template (now it’s really empty), added basic template, removed “Single Page Application” for MVC4.

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  • Optimization support in Web Forms project template
  • Enabled unit test project templates for all MVC project types.

MVC4 RC included

  • Introduced Web API scaffolding that you can do a full ApiController that uses Entity Framework to create a RESTful Web API.

More discoverable UI to choose default Browser in VS

  • Support to run application from VS in multiple browsers

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CSS editor enhancements

  • Improved IntelliSense triggering
  • Better vendor specific property support
  • Removed auto-insertion of closing curly based on customer feedback
  • Support for character encoding using @charset (including GB18030)
  • Support for latest CSS 3 unit types such as semitones
  • Added formatting options to CSS toolbar

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HTML editor enhancements

  • Improved formatter
  • Updated HTML5 IntelliSense and validation based on latest W3C standards
  • Script and Link element generation omits the type attribute for HTML 5
  • Drag ‘n drop support update for user controls, video- and audio files
  • IntelliSense for Web forms model binding
  • Updated SVG support

Publish Enhancements

  • Updated publish UI
  • Running EF Code First migrations on the publish dialog
  • Incremental database schema publish (not supported for hosters currently)
  • Incremental database schema preview
  • Update connection strings in web.config on publish (including complex EF connection strings)
  • Prompting for untrusted certificates on publish dialog during publish
  • Automatically convert dev10 publish profiles to the new dev11 format

Page Inspector

  • Asynchronous start for Page Inspector
  • No longer add web.config appSettings key VisualStudioDesignTime:Enabled
  • Added color feedback to selections in code editor while in inspect mode

 

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Comments
  • Alberto Monteiro
    31 May 2012 6:54 PM

    Where is single page application template in visual studio 2012, its gone?

      --- Hi, Alberto, Please visit http://www.asp.net/single-page-application for detailed information, basically, An official release of ASP.NET SPA won’t be ready in time to ship with the final ASP.NET MVC 4 release. You can find the source code for ASP.NET SPA and follow the development effort on the ASP.NET  CodePlex site.  -- Xinyang Qiu Web Platform and Tools team

  • kelly brook
    11 Jun 2012 2:51 AM

    when the visual studio 2010 was launched then web development was made so simple to every asp.net users but gradually the complexity of web development goes very high so microsoft had to launch its newer versions of visual studio according to user requirement.for more details http;//www.india-designers.net/

  • Manoj
    17 Jun 2012 7:12 PM

    I tried to used the inbuilt Javascript Console in Visual Studio 2012 on a Windows 7 machine with IE9. But it gives me an error saying "The installed version of Internet Explorer does not support the browse diagnostics windows.". I get the same error with the DOM Explorer too. Any solutions on how to fix it ?

  • 18 Jun 2012 10:02 AM

    Hi, Manoj,

    JavaScript console and DOM explorer on VS2012 only works with IE10, so you can get it work on windows 8 or download an IE10 pre-release version for Windows 7.  It's the same as IE10, just that you can do the same work in VS as well as in IE10's F19.

    For win7/IE9, you can just use IE9's F12 functionality.

    Thanks.  

    Xinyang Qiu

    Web Platform and Tools Team

  • Anna Harris
    19 Jul 2012 11:31 PM

    Hey!!  Really, these new features of visual studio 2012 RC are useful in website development. In past we cannot create this type of application in visual studio and nowadays we have css & html editor enhancement and other things which are new in visual studio 2012.

  • Shiva
    3 Aug 2012 6:05 AM

    Thank you for posting this web development blog.. it is really nice.

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