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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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Bootstrap mix-ins and Web Essentials issues

Are there known issues with Web Essentials and Bootstrap mix-ins? I am getting incorrect CSS (repeatable -- see my code below). I am working with the bootstrap.less package and using Web Essentials to compile the less file to css. (VS 2013 +…
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Why is Web Essentials 3.6.5 not compiling Typescript?

I just updated my Web Essentials to 3.6.5 and my *.ts files are not being compiled to javavscript. Also, when I go into Web Essentials-Typescript-Options the only option displayed is Show Preview Window and the right pane says CoffeeScript not…
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Visual Studio Code's Zen coding HTML comment

In Visual Studio Code, is there a way to insert an HTML comment, like just like you can insert a div tag with a class of "foo" by doing: div.foo + [TAB] That results in
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Visual Studio 2012 ASP.NET Empty Web Application LESS support

Ok, so I'm using Visual Studio 2012, with web essentials 2012, and I just created a new ASP.NET Empty Web Application. I added a LESS file to my styles folder and referenced it accordingly. Now, as it seems, this new ASP.NET Empty Web Application…
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LESS problems with implicit declared css class

We have the following declarations in styles.less: .table tbody > tr > td { &.colnum, &.colnumdec { > input[type=text], > input[type=number] { text-align: center; } } } .inputquantity { …
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How does Visual Studio 2012 Web Essentials offer LESS support?

I wanted to know if Web Essentials just includes some library to compile LESS, like dotLess, in the bundle, or if it is itself a compiler for LESS, along with other utilities?
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How can we use VS2013's brwoser link feature against IE7 / IE8?

With Web Essentials 2013 in Visual Studio 2013's Browser Link feature, we can hook IDE with developer tools of any browser. Can we hook it with IE7 and IE8 in the same manner? Perhaps using BrowserStack or those running inside Hyper-V VMs from…
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Web Essentials 2012 compile empty lines

I use Web Essentials 2012 in VS 2012. When I compile LESS file with content like that: /* HEADER */ .header{ background: red; } /* FOOTER */ .footer{ background: black; } ...to CSS file, the outcome is this: /* HEADER */ .header{ …
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VS 2013 \w web essentials ZenCoding not working

I have installed Web Essentials with Visual Studio 2013 RC. I'm trying to use Zen Coding and nothing happens when I press tab anywhere. On top of that I want to use it from cshtml (Razor) files when writing out my html. Is there any known issue that…
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Web Essentials Including existing style in new LESS style from another CSS file

I'm using version 3.0 of the Web Essentials for VS2012 and I'm experiencing an issue trying to create a new style based on the styling applied to another existing style in a separate CSS file (in the same directory). At the top of the LESS file I'm…
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LESS really doesn't work

Simple example: if I write in less-file so: h1 { color: #25d14d; } in css I get: h1 { color: #25d14d; } But if I write: @color: #25d14d; h1 { color: @color; } I get: /* Compile Error. See error list for details */ I've read…
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How to export/import settings and change advanced settings

I'm using VS 2012 Extension Web Essentials 2012 and I have some questions about it: I'm trying to export its settings so they can be shared on other machines. But I can't find any hint on that. And if it is somehow possible, how can I extend the…
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How to get the features of Web Essentials in Intellij IDEA

Hey guys I'm trying to move away from Visual Studio and to Intellij IDEA for web developing however I heavily use the features in the Web Essentials extension. Most of them I can find but I can't seem to find the following features: Vendor specific…
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Is there any difference on installing TypeScript from Web Essentials and separately?

Is the version of TypeScript on Web Essentials the same as the one provided by the TypeScript web site? http://vswebessentials.com/features/typescript Here is the link provided by the TypeScript web…
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Typescript 0.8.3.1 Compile-On-Save degraded and stopped working today

Visual Studio 2012, Typescript 0.8.3.1 Yesterday, I started having problem where, when I saved 1 .ts file, it would show me errors (about 6 in 3 files because they relied on the change I had just done), when I saved one of the other files that I…
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