A. JavaScript in Visual Studio 2008

UP UNTIL VISUAL STUDIO 2008, JavaScript support in the Visual Studio IDE was at best bad, and at worst you switched to a different development environment for JavaScript programming and debugging. Microsoft has made great JavaScript support improvements in Visual Studio 2008 and has fully integrated it with ASP.NET AJAX. Let’s go over the main JavaScript upgrade in Visual Studio 2008: IntelliSense.

IntelliSense

We’ve had good IntelliSense in Visual Studio for the non-JavaScript languages for years. It’s gotten better with each subsequent release, but the JavaScript IntelliSense didn’t improve equally compared to other languages. With Visual Studio 2008, we finally get improved JavaScript IntelliSense, and ...

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