Post details: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

04/28/05

Permalink 08:30:57 pm, Categories: Technology, Programming, 276 words   English (US)

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Oh my gawd! They finally changed this. This is something that has irritated me in every version of Microsoft HTML editor I ever remember using. When you are in design (WYSIWYG) mode and you press the Enter key, what does it do? It puts jumps out of the current <p></p> tags and starts a new <p></p> paragraph. I don't want that. I pressed Enter. I simply want to drop down a line with a <br> tag. If we want to get picky about it, put a <br /> tag in there.

Well, boys and girls, they finally did it! I just created a little hello world type web app with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I pressed Enter at the end of a line. IT INSERTED <br />!!! I'm so happy!

They've also added a feature that puts a green horizontal line next to all the lines of code once you've saved them. As soon as you've created a new line or modified an existing line, it changes to yellow indicating something that has been changed but not saved yet. Helps to visually depict what you've modified and what you haven't.

So far so good. Also, you can tell it that you want your project to be in the file system and it will let you run it and test it without having to have IIS or Cassini (sp?) installed on your machine. This last one I'd heard about but the first two items above are news to me.

If I get the time, maybe I'll post some more things as I learn them.

Comments:

Comment from: Steve Hartzog [Visitor] · http://www.geekswithblogs.net/shartzog
Actually, Cassini is what VS2K5b2 is using... on a dynamic port that changes each time VS runs debug (or "View in Browser").

Naturally I could be wrong. ;)
Permalink 04/29/05 @ 09:51
Comment from: Check [Member]
That may be what it's using behind the scenes but the point was that I don't have to download and install Cassini with VS 2005 like I had to with VS 2003.
Permalink 04/29/05 @ 12:17

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