Visual Studio: The best tool for web developers

VISUAL STUDIOThe best tool for web developers.

2013

WHO IS THIS GUY?

Robert MacLean@rmacleanwww.sadev.co.za

DeveloperUG.org.za

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO SEE?

Very simply: Visual Studio is the best web development IDE

Visual Studio Extension Gallery

NEW LOOK MICROSOFT

New releases & updates all the time

Decoupling Visual Studio, ASP.NET, .NET etc… all can update as

when they need!

Stop the “not invented here” behaviour

VISUAL STUDIO 2013

Beta was released on Wednesday, with loads of features

Some highlights for web developers:

CodeLens, Browser Link, One ASP.NET, Edit & Continue for x64, MVC 5, Entirely new HTML editor, HTML attribute IntelliSense, Cloud based load testing

& that is just the preview (more in RTM)

DEMO

Build a page – get a feel for how development is today

Build some HTML

Improve our CSS

Jump to LESS for even more improvements

Build <blink> with JavaScript

Deploy to production quickly

Using: VS 2012.2 + Git Extension + Web Essentials Extension

RECAP

Visual Studio for Web Dev = Happiness

CSS is a pleasure to work with

but LESS is even better

ZenCoding (Emmet) is fun & fast

JavaScript is a first class citizen in Visual Studio

Web Deploy makes it easy to ship

Microsoft ♥ Git

THANKS

Questions?

Feedback please: @rmaclean

Get slides & demo bits: www.sadev.co.za