Long live Web Essentials
In an episode of .NET Rocks from December 2016 I declared that Web Essentials would not be carried forward to Visual Studio 2017 and beyond. I’ve decided that was a bad idea, released a version for Visual Studio 2017 and...
Bundling, minification and client-side compilation
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...
Grunt and Gulp Intellisense in Web Essentials 2015
Update : See this new blog post for how to apply the Intellisense to both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 The latest release of Web Essentials 2015 provides Intellisense for GruntFile.js and GulpFile.js. For Gulp it just...
Important update to Web Essentials 2013
tl;dr You need to update Web Essentials 2013 to version 2.2. If not, Visual Studio will crash. Download now . Before Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 The upcoming release of Visual Studio Update 3 has API changes in some of...
Web Essentials on Visual Studio Web Express
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...
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and 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...
Web Essentials 2013: Where is the TypeScript support?
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...
Image workflow using Web Essentials 2013
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...
Web Essentials 2013 RTM
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...
Open sourcing Web Essentials 2012
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...