The new Whidbey XML/HTML Editor

Published Sat, Nov 27 2004 18:22 | William

Words could not begin to describe how much more I like the new HTML/XML editor in Whidbey.  For one thing, you can expand and collapse regions just like the IDE does with the code windows.  You can keep your formatting.  It fills in the tags immediately when you hit a space.  As soon as you hit an equal sign - it fills in the qoutes for you.  Granted, I'm so used to the 'old' way that I invariably fight myself for the first three minutes when switching back and forth - but overall it has to be one of the nicer features as far as user experience goes.  BTW, you may be thinking “Wow, Bill finally got over his XSLT handicap.“  However I really didn't.  That stylesheet is one I was working through with Matthew MacDonald's Pro ASP.NET 1.1 in C#: From Professional to Expert - quickly becomming my absolute favorite ASP.NET Book.  Walther held the title for a while -but this book has won me over.

 

Comments

# William said on November 27, 2004 6:39 PM:

Glad you like it!

yag

# William said on November 28, 2004 9:52 AM:

Actually - that's an understatetement - I'm Loving it. Very very much improved and defintiely improves the whole user experience.

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