Thursday, December 09, 2004

Visual Studio Web Developer

Just a quick one here. As I am re-writing thedotnetdiary.co.uk I have opted to use the beta of Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. My first impression has to be a big thumbs up. MS have judged the area spot on. It lays somewhere between Web Matrix and the full Visual Studio. It uses .net v2.0, so you have to make sure that you do not use anything 1.1 cannot handle when going in to production. One thing I realy like is you have a choice if you wish to use code-behind or not. The Toolbox sweeps in and out like VS and you can pin it down. That is one area I thought Web Matrix lost out on. Oh and there is Intellisense and autocomplete. Go take a look. The URL for more info is http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/.