Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
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...

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...

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...

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 Client-side , Tips and tricks

Earlier this year, Sayed and I released Web Developer Checklist to help web developer adhere to best practices. Checklists like these can be really helpful to make sure we don’t forget anything before releasing new or...

2 min read Client-side

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...

1 min read Videos , Client-side

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...

3 min read Client-side , The semantic web

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...

2 min read Client-side

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...

2 min read Client-side

I recently had to come up with a good argument for upgrading a Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. It is used as a web server, so the benefit I was looking for was the upgrade of IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. So I thought, why...