Visual Studio 2008 🚀 🔔

Enhanced support for managing styles, including the ability to treat CSS validation issues as warnings.

While introduced in .NET 3.0, the "Windows Vista foundations" reached maturity in Visual Studio 2008: visual studio 2008

ASP.NET developers saw massive improvements in Visual Studio 2008. The HTML designer was rebuilt to support CSS standards more accurately, and the much-maligned "Split View" (Design and Source side-by-side) actually worked reliably for the first time. Furthermore, VS 2008 introduced deep support for JavaScript IntelliSense. For front-end developers working with AJAX libraries (Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX or jQuery), this was a productivity miracle. Enhanced support for managing styles, including the ability