Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
3 min read Tips and tricks

So you have a website filled with images, CSS and JavaScript files, and you realize that you haven’t bothered optimizing the images or minified the CSS and JavaScript files. Or maybe you have, but your users can upload...

4 min read Visual Studio , Client-side

The current JavaScript Intellisense in Visual Studio is generated based on IE’s JavaScript engine Chakra and its support for the various browser/DOM APIs. The cool thing about that is that the accuracy is really high...

1 min read Visual Studio , Web Essentials

3 rd -party extensions have never been supported in the free Visual Studio Web Express . So you haven’t been able to install Web Essentials on Web Express before. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Web Essentials 2013...

4 min read ASP.NET , Visual Studio

This year at the //build/ conference I gave a session on Visual Studio Web Tools and Web Essentials. It’s now online on Channel 9 in case you want to watch it. I was using a few extensions that are great for any web...

2 min read Visual Studio , Web Essentials

Earlier this week we shipped Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2 . Gotta love that name. The previous CTP 1 release didn’t contain any web specific features, but CTP 2 is packed with web goodness . Here are some of the...

3 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

Optimizing for website performance includes setting long expiration dates on our static resources, such s images, stylesheets and JavaScript files. Doing that tells the browser to cache our files so it doesn’t have to...

2 min read Web Essentials

Update Jan 1st 2014. TypeScript support is back in Web Essentials! When Web Essentials was ported to Visual Studio 2013, a lot of features were removed. This was because many of those features were built directly in to...

1 min read Visual Studio , Web Essentials

In Web Essentials 1.7 for Visual Studio 2013 it is now easier than ever to work with images. In this video I'm demoing a lot of new features including: Paste image from clipboard onto VS editor Lossless image...

2 min read ASP.NET , Server-side , Tips and tricks

What's the address of your website? www .domain.com or domain.com? There are two camps on the subject of the www subdomain. One believe it should be enforced ( www.yes-www.org ) and the other ( no-www.org ) that it...

7 min read Visual Studio

The _references.js file controls a key part of the JavaScript Intellisense in Visual Studio for web projects and can mean the difference between awesome Intellisense and none at all. This is the story of how it works and...