New ASP.NET project gives a great webapp template in Visual Studio 2010

(Note: This blog post was originally published under my old domain(codesmiles.com), here. Web Archive link. (This post is part of Visual Studio 2010 series) When you create a new ASP.NET web application in Visual Studio 2010, you are getting a project which has a good set of features built into it for you to get started quickly. In previous versions of Visual Studio, when you create a new ASP.Net project, you just get one .aspx page with a web.config file.   (Visual Studio 2010’s solution explorer showing the contents of a just created Web Application project) Visual Studio 2010’s new project template has the following.. Master page – with menu, login view control, etc., has good div based layout with nicely used css styles. Along with two files based on master page(Default.aspx & About.aspx). Stylesheet – with styles for most elements your web pages will be designed with, that you can customize as you wish Forms authentication enabled – provides you with .aspx pages which implements forms authentication, like, login, register new user and change password, with necessary configurations in web.config Web.config file with Debug and Release versions, including sample Web.config transformations that you most probably need Web.config readily configured

Visual Studio 2010 released :)

(Note: This blog post was originally published under my old domain(codesmiles.com), here. Web Archive link. Finally, Visual Studio 2010 released today(April 12, 2010). I saw few guys tweeting each other that they are so happy about Visual Studio 2010’s release and this video. Do you wonder why they are that much happy? and are they maniacs? I am happy too, reason is, it could help developers by providing cool features which aren’t available till now, which simplifies our job a considerable extent and gives time to apply thought where it is really needed.   Happy Programming ! (hopefully soon with Visual Studio 2010 🙂   Don’t miss the video – When I Build You (The Visual Studio 2010 Song)….   Note: I couldn’t get the lyrics clearly and it says something about PHPers, but I think it’s just for fun and no offence intended to PHP developers 🙂