Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
3 min read Web Essentials , Visual Studio

In an episode of .NET Rocks from December 2016 I declared that Web Essentials would not be carried forward to Visual Studio 2017 and beyond. I’ve decided that was a bad idea, released a version for Visual Studio 2017 and...

3 min read Web Essentials , Visual Studio , Client-side

For the past couple of years, Web Essentials have been including features for bundling and minifying JS and CSS files as well as compiling LESS, Sass and CoffeeScript. As of Web Essentials 2015 that is no longer the...

2 min read visual studio

New Visual Studio extensions that makes web development easier

1 min read Visual Studio , Client-side

Update Jan 16, 2015 – The newly released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 also supports Grunt/Gulp Intellisense using the files available in this blog post. In fact, the Intellisense will be a lot better in CTP 5 due to the...

1 min read Visual Studio , Web Essentials

Update : See this new blog post for how to apply the Intellisense to both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 The latest release of Web Essentials 2015 provides Intellisense for GruntFile.js and GulpFile.js. For Gulp it just...

9 min read ASP.NET , Visual Studio

Last October I wrote about my road to Visual Studio 2013 which was one big diary entry for an entire year in my professional life. This is such an incredible time to be working on the Visual Studio Web Tools Team and I’m...

3 min read Client-side , Server-side

So you are building a website using static .html files instead of any server side technologies such as ASP.NET. That’s cool for various reasons, but my favorite is that it allows any developer on any platform to easily...

2 min read Visual Studio

I’m a huge fan of Visual Studio extensions – both consuming and creating them. Whenever I come across a missing feature in Visual Studio, my first instinct is to search for an extension that provides it. If it doesn’t...

2 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

HTML5 and CSS3 introduces some new file types that enables us to create even better websites. We are now able to embed video, audio and custom fonts natively to any web page. Some of these file types are relatively new...

1 min read Tips and tricks

Last time we took a look at the performance impact of using tabs vs. spaces in HTML files . One question that arose was whether or not it’s worthwhile to minify HTML when also using GZip. Let’s run the experiment. I’ve...