Visual Studio 2010 has a new look. Besides the new logo, it has a couple of new options when you are starting VS2010 for the first time.
- Web Development
- Web Development (Code Centric)
This seems to be part of a shift to recognize and help the two different types of web programmers that now exist. First we have the developers that prefer to work in the preview, dragging and dropping controls onto the page, and then tying them into the back-end. The “newer” web developer, which ironically develops more in the Classic ASP style, stays mostly in the HTML preferring to hand code each table, section, and control (Code Centric). Part of the reason for this is the new ASP.Net MVC framework that inherently puts you in this frame of mind. In addition, VS2010 also help in this area with new HTML snippets (type in TB and hit tab tab), to increase the speed at which you can “hand code” (sort of a mini Code Rush). In essence, when you select the Code Centric options, it strips away (or hides) all of the property windows.
Which way do you code? Are you a Code Centric developer?
Let me know.
Doc – Daniel Egan