I’m a huge fan of Visual Studio extensions – both consuming and creating them. Whenever I come across a missing feature in Visual Studio, my first instinct is to search for an extension that provides it. If it doesn’t...

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...

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...

This year at the //build/ conference I gave a session on Visual Studio Web Tools and Web Essentials. It’s now online on Channel 9 in case you want to watch it. I was using a few extensions that are great for any web...

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...

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...

The _references.js file controls a key part of the JavaScript Intellisense in Visual Studio for web projects and can mean the difference between awesome Intellisense and none at all. This is the story of how it works and...

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...

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...