This release has some cool features, some tweaks to existing ones and some bug fixes. Let’s take a tour and then go download it. Automatic update to CSS schema files The W3C continues to evolve the CSS specification and...

I was debating whether to call this release version 1.1 or 2.0 because it contains quite a lot of new functionality. I’ve decided to stick with 1.1 since it also features a lot of fixes and tweaks to the current...

The CSS editor in Visual Studio has unprecedented support for both W3C standards and vendor specific properties, pseudos and @-directives. See the full list here . However, not all vendor specific prefixes are supported...

I’ve been asked this question so many times lately, that a blog-post-answer seemed appropriate. There will be a Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2012! The original Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 quickly became...

Not everybody is able to upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 RC due to company policy or other reasons, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get some of its CSS 3 support in Visual Studio 2010 today. Whether or not you’ve got Web...

I just attended the TechDays 2012 event in The Netherlands and now it is all over and I'm heading back to Seattle in the morning. I gave a couple of sessions and here are the slides I used: What's new in Visual Studio 11...

Writing correct CSS can sometimes feel a little frustrating – especially with all the vendor specific properties and cross-browser techniques we need to be aware of. CSSCop for Visual Studio tries to help us write better...

I’ve been pretty quiet about my latest extension for Visual Studio 2010 outside of Twitter , so I’m thinking it’s due time for a blog post about how and why Web Essentials came to be. If you don’t know what Web...

For the past few months, I’ve been looking at how to improve the web development experience in Visual Studio. This summer I released the Web Standards Update which brings HTML5 and CSS3 to Visual Studio, and a few weeks...