Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is now available (actually, it was released a little while ago) and I only just got around to giving it a go. Although it doesn't seem a whole lot different to VS2010, there are a number of improvements and additions:
- async and await keywords
These keywords allow for some impressive asynchronous functionality to be handled (I briefly covered this in a previous blog post)
- Built-in bundling and minification of client scripts
This allows you to bundle up JavaScript and CSS into single files, to remove unnecessarily large numbers of requests and save on file size.
- Integrated Anti-XSS encoding routines
These anti cross site scripting features were available previously as an external DLL, but are now part of the core functionality.
- Support for HTML5 form types
Types such as email, tel, url and search are now handled appropriately.
There's more, but you can check out the full details here.
In addition to this, you can also check out the MVC 4.0 Developer Preview (I discussed this in a previous post) and the ASP.NET Web Pages 2.0 Developer Preview.