New JSON editor features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2

The Customer Tech Preview (CTP2) release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 contains a new JSON editor. In this release, the JSON editor includes a number of features such as colorization, and JSON syntax validation. More features will be added during subsequent releases. New JSON item template In a web application, you can use the new JSON item template under the Markup category to add a new file with the . json extension. Colorization When opening a file in the JSON editor, the content will be tokenized and have distinct colors. Invalid tokens will have the default black color as shown below. The color for numbers can be set using the setting at Tools –> Options –> Environment –> Fonts and Colors –> Number . JSON syntax validation...(read more)