You can also use Web Live Preview in a browser, this will enable you to preview/design your app in any browser that you prefer. Because of this, the preview in the designer will always be up-to-date with the latest web standards and browser support.

Web Live Preview in Visual Studio uses WebView2 which is powered by Microsoft Edge. Full support for latest browser technology Let’s get into to taking a closer look at some of these features.

Ability to use design/preview features in the browser.

Double click control to add default event handler.

Action Panel (aka Smart Tag) support for controls that have support for it.

Drag and drop from the toolbox into design view.

Live updates when changes are made to CSS files.

Live updates when changes are made to asp.net view files.

Selecting a control in the designer will navigate to the source.

Preview using live data instead of “placeholder” data.

Full support for latest browser technology.

Here are some features that we currently support in the new designer.

In the image below you can see the result when you click the Split button to get the designer into a new horizontal group. You can see the buttons to get started in the image below. You can click Design to get a full page view of the designer, or Split to split the designer into a new horizontal group. aspx file, you’ll see the new Design and Split buttons at the bottom of the code editor.

When you open a Web Forms view, for example an. In Preview 2, when you open a Web Forms view, the designer that is in place is the new Web Live Preview designer. We would love if you could try out the new experience with your existing projects and let us know how things are going. Since this is the first preview of the Web Forms designer, there are a lot of features which haven’t been implemented, but we will continue to improve the experience and add features as quickly as we can. In this post we will go over how you can use the new Web Forms designer as well as other features provided by Web Live Preview. In Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2, we have introduced a new designer for Web Forms projects that is powered by Web Live Preview.

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