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What is Visual Studio Page Inspector tool

Description

Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools into Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience between the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. It renders a web page (HTML, Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, or Web Pages) directly within Visual Studio 11 and lets you examine both the source code and the resulting output. Page Inspector enables you to easily decompose a website, rapidly build pages from the ground up, and quickly diagnose issues. In this lab, you will explore how to use Page Inspector.

Overview

In this Hands-on Lab, you will discover a new tool to find and fix web page issues in Visual Studio - the Page Inspector.
Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools to Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience among the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. It renders a web page (HTML, Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, or Web Pages) directly within the Visual Studio IDE and lets you examine both the source code and the resulting output. Page Inspector enables you to easily decompose a website, rapidly build pages from the ground up, and quickly diagnose issues.
Nowadays we have a number of Web frameworks that create flexible and scalable websites in a timely manner, such as ASP.NET MVC and WebForms. On the other hand, it gets harder to find issues on the pages because the IDE does not support the designer view in template-based pages and dynamic content. Therefore, these websites have to be opened in a browser to see how they appear to a user.
Web developers use external tools to find issues that regularly run in the browser. Then, they return to the IDE and start fixing. This back and forth activity among the IDE, the browser and the profiling tools can be inefficient, and sometimes requires a fresh deployment and cache cleaning each time you want to reproduce an issue.
Page Inspector bridges a gap in Web development between the client (browser tools) and the server (ASP.NET and source code) by bringing together the best of both worlds using a combined set of features.
Using Page Inspector, you can see which elements in the source files (including server-side code) have produced the HTML markup to be rendered in the browser. Page Inspector also lets you modify CSS properties and DOM element attributes to see the changes reflected immediately in the browser.
Prerequisites
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta
  • Page Inspector (included in the Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta installation)
  • Internet Explorer 9
  • ASP.NET MVC 4 (only if you are performing exercise 1; included in the Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta installation)

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