New Features in VS 2013 for Web Developers

Let's discuss some of the amazing enhancements and new features of VS 2013 (RC) in general and mostly related to web technologies.

VS IDE Changes
- Feedback Icon
- Notification symbol
- Sign In option to save your profile
- Tools->Options is now searchable and resizable
Productivity Improvements
- Enhanced Scroll Bar
- Auto Brace Completion
- Move the code by ALT + UP/Down Aero key
- Peek Definition
ASP.NET Enhancements
- Browsers Link (Bi-direction connection between VS and browser using Signal-R)
- Signal-R internally uses Web Sockets(HTML 5 API) when it's available of Injects through java script.
- Browsers Link Dashboard to manage tasks.
- Unused CSS can be identified using Snapshot CSS USES option in browser link
Java Script Editor Changes
- Methods lookup like C# Editor
- IntelliSense inside JavaScript for CSS/Html
- Enforce Coding Standard by JSHint (comes with Web Essentials, setting can be modified)
HTML Editor Changes
- IntelliSense Inside quotes.
- Auto HTML entities popup when type &
- Zen Coding supported using Web Essentials
- Move to HTML using ALT+1 and ALT+2 using Web Essentials
- Insert parent tags using ALT+SHIFT+W using Web Essentials
- Improved Smart tags to do regular tasks (e.g. Remove and Keep Children) uniformed across VS using CTRL + .
- Auto Formatting of tag when inserted in new line using Web Essentials (instead of CTRL+K, CTRL+D.
CSS Editor Changes
- IntelliSense for CSS Ids inside file.
- IntelliSense for Class name inside file
- IntelliSense for html elements across project

I have explored these features by downloading Visual Studio 2013 (RC). You can also try the same by downloading from below link:

You can also download Web Essentials from below link.

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