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Visual Web Developer as HTML editing tool

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An old friend told me tonight that she was having to author a set of static web pages "the old fashioned way" because of the need to avoid sloppy HTML code.  By "the old fashioned way" she meant Notepad.

Being so accustomed to Visual Studio myself, that thought slayed me, and it suddenly dawned that Visual Web Developer would substitute as the perfect HTML editor!

Load 'er up, change the active schema to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and just start creating or modifying HTML pages.  Unless you ask it to, it won't create any junk files (no Solution or Project or whatnot).  Basically it's perfect.  It's lightweight, and it's a free download. 

And you get AutoComplete. And really seamless Design/Source viewing. Squiggly lines to indicate errors in your source. Auto indenting. Auto formatting. Flexibility over how you want your XML tags formatted. Colour. And did I mention AutoComplete?

So to summarize: Mona, do yourself a favour and download Visual Web Developer :)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2005
    BTW, we have changed default target to XHTML Transitional 1.0 for RTM.
  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2005
    This post
    made me thinking what can you do to make Visual Web Developer to behave
    like Visual Notepad...
  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2005
    Cool, thanks Mikhail! I'm glad to hear XHTML becomes the default. And the entry you link to provides great tips for simplifying Visual Web Developer. In my case, however, I quite like a lot of the features you show us how to disable en route between Web Developer and WebNotepad ;)
  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2009
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