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Web Essentials

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Adds many useful features to Visual Studio for web developers

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Visual Studio
2010
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8/28/2012
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by D. Chatterjee | Mon 6:29 AM

by CharlieG | March 29 2013

Pure goodness. Zen Coding integration is killer. Thank you sir!

by matengo | March 14 2013

Freezes Visual Studio completely when I have knockout attributes in the HTML.. Have to terminate VS and restart over and over again.. The web essentials is disabled until this is fixed.. I really hope you work on this.

by 布尔运算 | February 22 2013

not work for me now , like the extensions is disabled.

by Waqas M | February 08 2013

Very useful features to Visual Studio for web developers

by SurgeForward | December 20 2012

This extension made typescript far more accessible. I look forward to SCSS support!

by neez1 | December 08 2012

Hi, excellent tool. highly appreciated. but it extremely slows done while you are writing JS code. you need to work on it.

P.S: that dude seems to be jealous through out the video when you are presenting your plugin.

by mdarens | October 25 2012

by cloudfuse | October 02 2012

I am downloading and installing this for the collapsible code brace region feature. if (stateMentTooLong){... I want to collapse it now without regions....}

but lo! that feature is not working in my VS2010.

by gbiamby | September 27 2012

This add-in is great in VS2012, except for one problem: most of the time when I try to save a .coffee file that has syntax errors, Visual Studio crashes. Let me know if there is any info I can send to help you debug this.

by Rob Reynolds (FerventCoder) | August 26 2012

Fantastic addition to Visual Studio!

by PaulJSanchez | July 20 2012

It become unusable when editing medium-large javascript files... about a second delay from keypress to character appearing in the document! I had to disable it... when bugs like this dissapear, I'll give another try.

by BrianJFinkel | July 12 2012

Really great ideas, but JS extensions are way too slow and seem to compete with MS JS extensions, which are better. Can you add the ability to selectively enable/disable the tools? That might be a huge improvement. The CSS extensions are awesome, but I can't leave this thing running because it kills the JS editor.

by Mark_GNJ | July 07 2012

Excellent plugin, Amazing! Loved it

by NinjaCross_MSDN | July 04 2012

A really amazing tool !
Now that I've tried it, I cannot think working without !

by zymara | June 23 2012

by miminor | June 19 2012

cannot turn off color preview glyphs due to which the whole text editor is jerking!

by creage | June 18 2012

Greatly reduces the editor performance, leaks memory terribly.

Otherwise fine to use.

by Andreas Flügge | June 11 2012

It will disable Bender's JSEnhancements extension. At least the very nice region folding will not work any longer.

by DaveFranklin | June 10 2012

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    Coffee script crashing VS2012 Professional
    1 Posts | Last Post May 06, 2013
    • Written May 06, 2013 
      I opened a website (File > Open > Website) from a local directory. Then added new CoffeeScript file using new file dialog (Ctrl+N). The new coffeescript editor is opened with preview split screen.

Then pasted this coffee code in it http://pastebin.com/Hzt4gBtE. Once pasted, I clicked in preview screen (for JS), I got the shutting-down error.

Please review this issue. I just updated to v2.7.. 

Please also bring the CoffeeScript and other filetypes in new file dialog when no project or website is opened (open a new instance of VS and press Ctrl+N). 

PS Its a shame that we don't have support for SCSS and SASS!
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    import file returns 404
    3 Posts | Last Post April 18, 2013
    • Written April 03, 2013 
      Hi,

I've started facing an issue after I upgraded to version 1.6 where the @import url('../../../settings.less'); stopped working and I see the following error in the output window 
Error	1	LESS: Couldn't load ../settings.less (404)

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

Thank you,
Guy
    • Written April 09, 2013 
      I've encountered the same issue as Guy. @import statements in .less throw compile errors on save if a relative path '../mycss.less' is used.
    • Written April 18, 2013 
      We have run into the same issue here. It definitely seems to deal with paths. Any files which only reference files in the same directory work fine.
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    Comments break intellisense
    1 Posts | Last Post March 28, 2013
    • Written March 28, 2013 
      I'm using Twitter Bootstrap (less version) and even though the compilation result is OK, while in edit mode on the .less file the // comments show a syntax error. For example "// Core variables and mixins" this would trigger an "unexpected token" syntax error. Is that a known issue?
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    Bundles Documentation
    1 Posts | Last Post March 08, 2013
    • Written March 08, 2013 
      Is there a documentation for the bundle files system? I'd like to know what are the options.
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    Crashing VS 2012
    2 Posts | Last Post March 01, 2013
    • Written March 01, 2013 
      My VS 2012 started crashing after the last update I downloaded of this extension. Anytime I would open a web project it crashes. I got this from Windows Event viewer.

Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.TypeLoadException
Stack:
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.LessGraphProvider.CreateChildren(System.Object)
   at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(System.Object)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
   at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()
    • Written March 01, 2013 
      Visual Studio freezes all the time when I edit a html view with knockoout binding... Have to restart Visual Studio every 5 minutes... Any solution for this..?
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    Less files dose not recogonied in 2.5.1 version
    1 Posts | Last Post February 28, 2013
    • Written February 28, 2013 
      Updated the web essentials to latest version(2.5.1), after restarting the VS the less files are unrecognized, no color code, co code hint, and compile css on save noting works. please fix and release a new patch release.
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    Another output error
    1 Posts | Last Post February 08, 2013
    • Written February 08, 2013 
      C# project ( Web essentials steals output focus ) and randomly displays the following:

2/8/2013 1:25:36 PM: Updating bundles...
2/8/2013 1:26:19 PM: Updating bundles...
2/8/2013 1:26:19 PM: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()
2/8/2013 2:29:15 PM: Updating bundles...
2/8/2013 2:30:32 PM: Updating bundles...
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    VS 2011 Dev Preview
    5 Posts | Last Post January 30, 2013
    • Written January 12, 2012 
      This is an awesome tool for web developpers, especially the CSS part. Kudos!

Could you make it compatible with VS 2011?
    • Written January 12, 2012 
      This extension will not be ported to VS11, since a lot of the feature do/will overlapse. However, I might create another one for VS11 later on though.
    • Written March 06, 2012 
      Really missing not having this in VS11.  I can't find native support for 'Live Preview'.  Any chance on porting that feature over?
    • Written June 23, 2012 
      I'm really missing this extension in VS2012, too!!!  Please please port it over, I'm not seeing much overlap in the RC version I'm using now.  I've come to rely on a lot of these features and am now frustrated that they are not available.  :^(
    • Written January 30, 2013 
      In case anyone comes here and wasn't aware, the VS2012 version is here:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/07d54d12-7133-4e15-becb-6f451ea3bea6
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    Status message at the end of build
    3 Posts | Last Post January 28, 2013
    • Written January 14, 2013 
      Hi, gotta say I love your plugin, but I noticed that after the last update, visual studio 2012 is now showing "Web Essentials: Bundles updated" as the last status message after building my project (and my current one is not even a web project). Problem is it displays this even when the build failed, so I can no longer check if the build was successful or not, since I don't use the default solution errors view, and don't display the build console either..
    • Written January 22, 2013 
      Confirmed. This is *VERY* annoying. I would appreciate this being fixed!
    • Written January 28, 2013 
      This is driving me crazy.  I am compiling a C# project and the web essentials steals the output focus!
Please fix!
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    Save path of compiled files
    1 Posts | Last Post January 28, 2013
    • Written January 28, 2013 
      Is it possible to set the path to save the compiled css from less?
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