Microsoft recently released the new version of Visual Studio 2013 and web tools. Here are the summary of the new features for the web developers in Visual Studio 2013.
- New release focuses on One ASP.NET, which steps toward to unifying the ASP.NET technologies so core features can and web tools work the same across the platforms (e.g. adding ASP.NET MVC controllers to a Web Forms application).
- Enhance Authentication and Identity feature.
- New version of ASP.NET, which includes ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Razor 3, Entity Framework 6 and SignalR 2.0
- New Browser link feature that lets you to connect multiple browsers to Visual Studio and refresh them all by clicking a button in the toolbar.
- New core features include new templates based on Bootstrap, a new scaffolding system.
- Awesome editor for web tools, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, Ember, LESS, CofeeScript etc.
- New Project Readme.html page.
- New and enhance Web publish features like easily automate Web.config file encryption, automate taking an application offline during deployment.
- Visual Studio 2013 released with a new NuGet 2.7 for package management.
