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Chapter 1: Exploring SharePoint Designer
Although it may be difficult to see on a book page, Code view uses color coding to help you recognize
tags delimiters, parameters, inline text, comments, and many other code elements. In fact, Code view
offers all of the assistance typical of any modern development environment, and then some, as discussed
in the following sections.
IntelliSense and More
IntelliSense has been a part of Microsoft development tools for more than a decade. Usually manifesting
as a pop - up, it detects what you are typing and offers suggestions for completing your task. Though
originally limited to program code, in SharePoint Designer Code view, IntelliSense has been expanded
far beyond that. It now includes such features as:
Automatic tag and brace closure .
Parameter selection (as shown in Figure 1 - 17 ) .
CSS statement completion .
Automatic code hyperlinks.
Programming code completion .
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Figure 1-16
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