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Web Essentials is an open-source extension for VisualStudio written by Mads Kristensen, a Program Manager at the Microsoft Web Platform team, which, according to its own site: 'Adds many useful features to Visual Studio for web developers'

Full details of Web Essentials can be found here and here.

The extension provides better support for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, CoffeeScript, JSHint, LESS, and TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012.

To contribute, send the pull request to Web Essentials 2012 or Web Essentials 2013 on GitHub. Also, to report the bug, open issue on corresponding GitHub repo.

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Can not install Web Essentials to VS12

I can't seem to install WebEssentials. I keep getting this error, even though I get the VS icon for the VSIX extension, & have updated VS12 inside the program. 2013-02-07 21:59:15 - Microsoft VSIX Installer 2013-02-07 21:59:15 -…
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Can Web Essentials be configured to NOT add *.css files to Visual Studio project?

We are using Visual Studio + Web Essentials to compile LESS files to CSS. Whenever we change a LESS file Web Essentials insists on creating a *.css, *.min.css and a *.css.map file AND add them to the Visual Studio project file. We don't want to…
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how to stop visual studio 2013 from adding mapping source link to css files

I'm using visual studio 2013. I'm using the web essential tool for my less/css files. when I'm saving a less file it's add a line like the one below to the end css file,for example: /*# sourceMappingURL=filename.css.map */ how can I stop the vs2013…
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How to turn on Live Web Preview in Web Essentials 2012 in Visual Studio 2012

I am trying to turn on the Live Web Preview feature of Web Essentials 2012 for when editing CSS files in Visual Studio. Everywhere I find the following instructions how to do that with none of them working for me: 1) Hit Ctrl + Alt + Enter ->…
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Web Essentials - Bundle versioning

I'm currently using Visual Studio Web Essentials in order to bundle and minify my CSS and JavaScript files. At present I'm manually creating the bundles with a version number (e.g. mybundle-1.0.0.css) in order to avoid caching issues when pushed out…
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Web Essentials 2017 not showing up in VS 2017

I've installed Web Essentials 2017. When I open Visual Studio Enterprise 2017, it shows as being an installed extension, and "Reset Web Essentials" shows on the tools menu, but there are no settings that I can see. Shouldn't a settings dialog box be…
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TypeScript, Html & JS file nesting in Visual Studio 2015

How do I manage/control the nesting of TypeScript files in Visual Studio? I am getting a mix of nested & not nested files, I'm not sure how/why, as shown below.
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Visual Studio 2019 - Browser Link Not Working

Does anyone know how to enable browser link for use with visual studio 2019? Web Essentials doesn't seem to work with my .net mvc project. I have installed Web Essentials in visual studio 2019 and in chrome but no luck in getting it to work. It…
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Sass failing to compile - Web Essentials 2013 Update 4

I'm currently using Web Essentials 2013 update 4 to provide support for compiling .scss files in Visual Studio. The tool has worked fine for me in the past however I have just created a new .scss file and have copied the bootstrap un-minified css…
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Compile LESS with Web Essentials in Visual Studio Error - Cannot call method 'toJSON' of undefined

I just installed Web Essentials in Visual Studio Premium 2013 in order to use LESS css. I renamed my Site.css into Site.less, save and I get Compilation Error occurred (see error list to navigate to the error location): On the error list: Error 1 …
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Web Essentials not working

I've just installed the Web Essentials(v 2.7) for MS Visual Studio 2012 and it's not working (i'm interested in the LESS part). I've restarted VS, the 'extension and updates' windows displays web essentials as being installed, but for some reason i…
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Cannot find "Start Recording" button in VS Web Essentials 2015

I am pulling my hair off here... Why on earth is Start Recording button which is shown in every tutorial is not where it is supposed to be in Web Essentials 2015? Here is the picture of the available options in the Browser Link Menu... And here is…
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Single Quotes in Emmet With VS Web Essentials

Is there a way how to force Visual Studio Web Essentials to insert single quotes instead of double quotes? For instance so that div.col-xs-1 TAB produces
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LESS Compiler: Unexpected token u

When I attempt to compile a LESS template in Visual Studio using Web Essentials, I receive an error that says "Unexpected token u" with no file name, no line number, and no column number. Why is this happening?
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TypeScript not compiling with WE3 and TS 0.9.1.1

I just upgraded to the latest version of WebEssentials v3 and the TS files in my ASP MVC 4 project aren't compiling to JS anymore. I verified that the Options --> Text Editor --> TypeScript --> Project --> Automatically compile TypeScript files…
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