2011

6 articles published in 2011

  1. Introducing CSSCop - FxCop for stylesheets

    · 1 min read

    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...

  2. Web Essentials - the idea

    · 4 min read

    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...

  3. CSS speed typing for Visual Studio

    · 1 min read

    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...

  4. Optimize ASP.NET presentation

    · 1 min read

    At //build and today at VS Live I gave a talk about performance optimizing ASP.NET web applications using bundling, minification and other cool tricks. See the video presentation The Visual Studio 2010 extension I used...

  5. Web Standards Update - behind the scenes

    · 3 min read

    We just released the first Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 . Despite its name, the update also works for Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1. You can read more on our team blog. In this first...

  6. HTML5 & CSS3 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    · 2 min read

    Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 beta last month, there has been a lot of questions regarding the support for HTML5 and CSS3. HTML5 Visual Studio 2010 was originally released without HTML5 support, so does SP1...