VS 2010: Optimized Web Development Profile

Today’s article will describe the new “Web Development (Code Optimized)” profile presented in VS 2010. This profile allows you to optionally customize Visual Studio, run in a mode that the web designer hides WYSIWYG and optimizes the look of various tools.

When you first start VS 2010, it prompts you to select an IDE profile. The selected profile will customize the tool window, which will be displayed and attached to the IDE by default, as well as customize the keyboard shortcut. Later, you can change any settings through the Tools-> Options menu. You can also reset the profile settings and select others through the Tools-> Import and Export Settings menu.

When you launch VS 2010 Beta2 for the first time, you will notice that there are two “Web Development” profiles in the list of profiles:


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The first profile is “Web Development”, the heir to the existing web development profile from VS 2008 (with nice innovations that will help improve the use of free space on the screen)
It also allows you to enjoy all the innovations of WYSIWYG HTML and ASP.NET Page designer, which we implemented in VS 2010.

The second profile - “Web Development (Code Optimized)” is new, presented in VS 2010, and which is optimized for web developers who do not want to use WYSIWYG designer during development and for those who prefer to edit only source code when working with pages. This profile hides the WYSIWIG tab of the page designer and adjusts the IDE view to maximize the space for the code on the screen (with the minimum number of toolbars). You continue to use all the features of intellisense / debug, the source code editor of the pages.

Comparing Web Development Profiles in VS 2010

You can understand the differences between the two profiles when comparing screenshots:

Screenshot of “Web Development” profile:

Below, the default IDE view is shown (at a screen resolution of 750x650), using the “Web Development” profile. This profile is a development of the existing “Web Development” profile in VS 2008 and expands the design / separator / source code bookmarks for HTML and ASP.NET pages:



Screenshot of “Web Development (Code Optimized)” profile:

Below, the default IDE view is shown (with a screen resolution of 750x650), using the “Web Development (Code Optimized)” profile. The profile optimizes the screen for displaying and editing code, hides all toolbars, disables and hides the designer’s tab in the HTML and ASP.NET windows pages:



Below is a screenshot of an optimized profile with a higher screen resolution:



Mixing and comparison capabilities

All the various features used in the standard profiles “Web Development” and “Web Development (code optimized)” can be configured in the Tools-> Options menu. You can start working with any VS profile (including General, VB and C # profiles) and turn individual settings on or off.

For example, below, you see a check mark in the Tools-> Options window, which enables or disables the HTML designer:



This gives you the opportunity to flexibly customize the interface for yourself, to create a personally optimized interface.