HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview

HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview: The Preview Release of Visual Studio 2013 contains a surprising addition: a brand new HTML editor! In fact, VS 2013 contains two HTML editors. The story’s a little complicated, so this article will do its best to simplify the matter. Visual Studio 2012 included a brand new CSS editor, implemented entirely in managed code and highly extensible through MEF. This allowed the development of the Web Essentials extension, which greatly extended the feature set of CSS but which is rev’ed independently in a rapid cadence. Unfortunately, the HTML editor’s architecture remained dated and could not be extended without re-shipping existing product components. In Visual Studio 2013 we introduce the first step in remedying this situation. The HTML editor...(read more)

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