Later in Exercise 2 I make a client-side JavaScript template like this with "mustache/handlebar style" expressions like This was helpful to me when I got to adding moment.js as I could see what methods my Date had available: If adding that line bugs you, you can put all your references in a _references.js file and never look at it. You can drag a file from the Solution Explorer into your JavaScript file to make a comment that acts as a reference/hint to Visual Studio like this: ///. You can add a "hint" or reference so Visual Studio can be smarter for you.įor example, I was using this Ember.js object and wasn't getting any help so intellisense just added all the info that it had. There are times when you're working in a JavaScript file that needs to know about objects in another file but the editor can't figure it out.
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It doesn't get everything, but it's VERY smart. The JavaScript editor in VS11 is greatly improved and is actually running the JavaScript in the background as you are running it, so the intellisense autocomplete help is very useful, especially for a JavaScript newbie. While I was typing up this exercise there were a few nice things about VS that made the experience pleasant. Here's a screenshot of what that looks like. You can set any page you like a the startup page and they Ctrl-F5 (or a button in the toolbar) will launch the browser without server-side debugging.Īt the end of Exercise 2 you will have dynamically created feed items and bound them with a client-side template. I right-clicked on Index.html and set it as the Startup Page for my project. I downloaded Pete's Lab, opened Visual Studio and when Open Web Site and opened the first Exercise's folder. However, a lot of work has been done in Visual Studio lately to make web development easier and I wanted to see if it stood up, even when doing all client-side HTML/CSS/JS. It doesn't use ASP.NET or anything server-side that Visual Studio is typically built for. This lab that Pete made is all client-side.
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I wanted to see if VS11 Express Web (the free version) would work well for "front end" web development. I thought that was cool because some client-side developers think VS is all server-side and too "industrial strength." They have a great lab called "WReader" that uses Ember, HTML5 Boilerplate, Moment.js, Bootstrap CSS and LawnChair.js that builds a single page JavaScript application over 12 exercises.Ī few weeks ago a non-Microsoft developer saw a post I did on some new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript features in VS11 and mentioned he might want to use it over Dreamweaver. I wanted to work through a new tutorial by former Microsoftie, now Googler Pete LePage along with Chris Wilson.