New Features in VS 2013 for Web Developers

Let's discuss some of the amazing enhancements and new features of VS 2013 (RC) in general and mostly related to web technologies.

• VS IDE Changes
   
  • Feedback Icon
  • Notification symbol
  • Sign In option to save your profile
  • Tools->Options is now searchable and resizable
     
•  Productivity Improvements
   
  • Enhanced Scroll Bar
  • Auto Brace Completion
  • Move the code by ALT + UP/Down Aero key
  • Peek Definition
     
• ASP.NET Enhancements
   
  • Browsers Link (Bi-direction connection between VS and browser using Signal-R)
  • Signal-R internally uses Web Sockets(HTML 5 API) when it's available of Injects through java script.
  • Browsers Link Dashboard to manage tasks.
  • Unused CSS can be identified using Snapshot CSS USES option in browser link
     
• Java Script Editor Changes
   
  • Methods lookup like C# Editor
  • IntelliSense inside JavaScript for CSS/Html
  • Enforce Coding Standard by JSHint (comes with Web Essentials, setting can be modified)
     
• HTML Editor Changes
   
  • IntelliSense Inside quotes.
  • Auto HTML entities popup when type &
  • Zen Coding supported using Web Essentials
  • Move to HTML using ALT+1 and ALT+2 using Web Essentials
  • Insert parent tags using ALT+SHIFT+W using Web Essentials
  • Improved Smart tags to do regular tasks (e.g. Remove and Keep Children) uniformed across VS using CTRL + .
  • Auto Formatting of tag when inserted in new line using Web Essentials (instead of CTRL+K, CTRL+D.
     
•  CSS Editor Changes
   
  • IntelliSense for CSS Ids inside file.
  • IntelliSense for Class name inside file
  • IntelliSense for html elements across project

I have explored these features by downloading Visual Studio 2013 (RC). You can also try the same by downloading from below link:
 

Visual Studio Downloads

 

You can also download Web Essentials from below link.
 

Web Essentials 2013