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Fully Customizable
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Visual Web Developer Express is designed to let you create a personalized development experience with your preferences in mind. Windows like the solution explorer, toolbox and properties windows can all be easily re-arranged to suite your preferences. Simply click and drag a window and you’ll notice visual guides to help you reposition to your hearts content.
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Formatting tags |
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Visual Web Developer gives you fine-grained control over a number of formatting options for HTML and ASP.NET tags including capitalization, colorization and more.
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You can even control the appearance of individual tags, including your own custom tags, by selecting the Tag Specific Options.
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Source code formatting |
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Visual Web Developer also lets you control how your Visual Basic or C# code is formatted, including options to control indentation, spacing, new lines and more.
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Fonts and colors |
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Visual Web Developer even gives you control over all of the fonts and colors used within the IDE.
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Customizable code snippets |
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IntelliSense Code Snippets are fully extensible, so you can easily customize and create your own code snippets and share them with the community. All snippets are stored as XML files that can be easily exchanged or transferred to other computers.
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Import/Export settings |
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The new Import and Export Settings Wizard lets you easily import and export user settings and preferences to other computers. The settings wizard also makes it a snap to reset your IDE to the default settings.
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Create custom templates |
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Using Visual Web Developer, you can create custom items or project templates that you can use for your applications or share with others in the ASP.NET community. For example, you may want to create a custom Web page template to add search capabilities based on MSN Search to any site.
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To do this, simply create the Web page that you want to export.
Then click File..Export Template… to display the Export Template Wizard. From here you can choose to export the entire project or an individual item.
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You can then set a custom icon, template name, and description for your custom template.
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After completing the wizard, your project or item template is now available to share with others as a packaged zip file and is automatically added to your custom templates directory. To use your custom template, simply go to the Add New Project… or Add New Item… menu options respectively.
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