Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
4 min read Visual Studio

Snippets are the little shortcuts available in Visual Studio for all the different languages. Here's a well known C# code snippet in action: It just shows up in Intellisense and when you hit TAB, it folds out into this...

2 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

I recently upgraded MiniBlog from using WebPages/Razor 2 to version 3. The upgrade was completely painless. I just upgraded the NuGet package and it didn't even touch my web.config. Thumbs up to the Razor team for that!...

1 min read Tips and tricks , Visual Studio

Due to the brand new HTML editor in Visual Studio 2013, static HTML files no longer has the Design|Split|Source options enabled by default. That’s because the new HTML editor is the default editor for all HTML files with...

3 min read Web Essentials

Today was the long-awaited day when Visual Studio 2013 RTM was released. Check out Scott Guthrie’s blog post about all the new features for web developers. Today is also the day Web Essentials 2013 ships as version 1.0...

6 min read Random thoughts

This summer has been one of the most productive I’ve ever had. Normally I spend summers balancing frozen margaritas in my hammock. That’s called Hammock Driven Development . You should try it. Visual Studio 2013 Preview...

1 min read Web Essentials

At the //build/ conference when Visual Studio 2013 Preview was released, I open sourced Web Essentials 2013 live on stage . So far that has been really successful with 110 pull requests sent by the community. And Visual...

1 min read

I’ve been recording a quite a few videos lately for showing off new features in Visual Studio and Web Essentials . Some videos also shows prototypes of what is coming down the line. The question is whether or not videos...

1 min read

Here’s a feature that you might have missed in Visual Studio 2013 RC. It’s one of my absolute favorite features because it solves a very common problem that I often run into when building websites. I think it’s better to...

1 min read

A little while back, Sayed Hashimi and I built the Web Developer Checklist Chrome extension as a companion for the website webdevchecklist.com . We built the extension in Visual Studio and quickly realized that we could...

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In this video from //build/ I show what’s new for web developers in Visual Studio 2013. Here are some of the highlights: URL rewrite Intellisense in web.config JavaScript navigational dropdowns EcmaScript 6 support A few...