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What is New in ASP.NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 IDE

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Introduction This article is an introduction to some of the new features in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 IDE. Code Snippets Code snippets are pre-developed code templates which can save time spent on thinking about the syntax. There are already a lot of built-in code snippets in VS2005 and VS2008. However, those are only available for the code-behind. Code snippets in VS2010 are introduced for JScript, HTML, and ASP.NET markup as well. In the screenshots below, we can see different snippet context menus for JScript and HTML. Inside the script tag, it would be And inside the HTML: New Profiles We have seen different development profiles in previous versions of .NET. Like VB, C#, Web Development, and General Development. We select a profile based on our priorities. These are selected after the first installation of Visual Studio or from the Import Export option. In VS2010, two more profiles are introduced and both support HTML developers. Those are: Web De