Find more about the improvements of Visual Web Developer

Visual Web Developer is tuned to the specific needs of the Web developer through a new Web profile that exposes a menu and window layout optimized for Web development. The environment includes a best-of-breed HTML source editor, an improved visual page designer, a new project system, better support for working with data, and full XHTML standards support. Collectively, these features enable you to develop data-driven Web applications faster and easier than ever before.

Below well dive in and explore a few of the many Web development improvements coming with Visual Web Developer.

• Better Source Code Editing
  Visual Web Developer has an improved HTML source editor which enables you to write and modify your pages faster. The source editor provides full Intellisense throughout your files and has new features for navigating and validating your markup.
• HTML Source Preservation
  Visual Web Developer respects your HTML. The formatting of your HTML markup -- including all white space, casing, indention, carriage returns, and word wrapping -- is now preserved exactly as originally written, even when switching back and forth between the design view and source view of the page. You can completely trust Visual Web Developer to never modify your markup.
• HTML Formatting Options
  Visual Web Developer enables you to precisely control the format of all HTML and ASP.NET Server Control markup generated using the WYSIWYG designer. You can now configure the tag casing, attribute quotation, indention style and word wrap characteristics of every html or server control tag in a page. You can set these formatting options as defaults for all markup, as well as optionally override each formatting option on a per tag/control basis. This provides you with the flexibility to fully control exactly how you want your markup to be generated.
• Tag Navigatop
  The HTML source editor within Visual Web Developer ships with a new Tag Navigator feature that enables developers to easily track their location and navigate within a complicated HTML document. The Tag Navigator displays the current "path" within the source of an HTML page by displaying a list of all the HTML tags which contain the tag where your cursor is currently located. Clicking on any of the nodes enables developers to optionally change the source level selection, and quickly move up and down a deep HTML hierarchy.
• Tag Outlining
  Tag Outlining enables you to work more effectively with large HTML documents. With Tag Outlining, you can right-click any HTML tag in the source editor and select Collapse Tag to hide the entire contents of the tag. Collapsing different regions of the HTML source code contained in a page makes it easier to focus on the particular region of the page which you need to edit.
• Code Refactoring
  Code Refactoring enables you to easily and systematically make changes to your code. Code Refactoring is supported everywhere that you can write code including both code-behind and single-file ASP.NET pages. For example, you can use Code Refactoring to automatically promote a public field to a full property.
• Intellitask
  Intellitask is like a super smart clipboard designed for working with code. Intellitask improves your productivity by enabling you to easily apply standard code snippets anywhere within the source editor. Simply by right-clicking, you can inject common code into your pages. Visual Web Developer will ship with more than 200 web specific Intellitask code snippets out of the box. Better yet, you can add your own code templates to Intellitask so that you can quickly modify your code in the future.
• FTP Support
  Visual Web Developer now has built-in support for editing and updating remote web projects using the standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP). You can quickly connect to a remote Web site using FTP within the New Web Site and Open Web Site dialog box.