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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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LESS: Unrecognised input

I'm trying to learn less with the help of Web Essentials 2012. Right from the start, this LESS code: @main-color: red; .mega-warning { font-size: 24px; color: @main-color; } is giving a compile error "LESS: Unrecognised input" and the…
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Typescript will not properly compile in VS2012

For no clear reason, Typescript has suddenly stopped reliably compiling into JS code. Using VS2012, Typescript for VS ver 0.8.3.1 and Web Essentials ver 2.6 (set to "Compile on Save"). I can create a new Typescript file and make simple changes to it…
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Visual Studio is not responding while using TypeScript

I am using the typescript. I can create simple typescript samples and run. When i was creating complex type of codes, visual studio becomes not responding. Can any of you know the reason for this issue? The Performance tab on TaskManager takes…
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Visual Studio + ASP.NET Core + TypeScript - who compiles *.ts?

I am confused about what gets to compile TypeScript files for me and when: Visual Studio on save. Mads Kristensen's extensions. Gulp.js. Node.js. Something else. Where should TypeScript files be placed: ..\app\*.ts ..\wwwroot\app\*.ts How to…
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Are there no command line tools for VS Web Essentials Extension?

We use this Visual Studio extension, but also want to use it on our CI server without checking in the generated bundled files. Are there no command line tools for this? Wondering how the rest of the Web Essentials community is doing this.?.? Surely…
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Web Essentials 2013 unused css is not working

I am using Visual Studio 2013 with Web Essentials 2013 and when using browser link, it is not finding unused css when using both IE11 and Chrome 31. I have tried everything I can think of and it won't show me the unused css class. Everything else…
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Web Essentials v2.8 LESS import error

For better organization, I have a main .less file that imports other .less files using the @import syntax. In order for the Web Essentials Preview window to work I also have @import-once at the top of each .less file that imports the variables.less…
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VS Web Essentials 2012 compile master LESS on imported save

I am trying to maintain a global .less file which @imports the rest of the application .less files. I am currently developing this project in Visual Studio 2012 using the Web Essentials extension which automatically generates css files on…
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Razor editor formatting not working after installing Web Essentials and Web Compiler

I've just rebuilt my machine with a fresh install of Visual Studio 2015. I've also installed the extensions for Web Essentials and Web Compiler but these seem to have caused a problem Say for example, prior to installing Web Essentials and Web…
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How to compile Bootstrap LESS source in VS 2013

I have visual studio 2013 Ultimate Update 4 plus Web Essentials installed and updated. I download bootstrap V3.3.1 source I copied the css, js, fonts and less folder to visual studio. Now I want to compile all .less files after my edits there to…
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Visual Studio is formatting my CSS/LESS in the way I don't want, how to turn it off?

Recently, my LESS file was reformatted in this way: selector { some rules } selector nested-selector { some other rules } I don't want the nested rule to be indented, where can I turn it off? BTW this might be a Web Essentials…
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Web essentials - Run on build events

I am working on a project using Web Essentials to bundle and minify script files. It works perfectly well and Web Essentials run when I save changes the to script files. We are currently several developers on the project and we face a problem every…
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Compile, bundle and minify typescript into JavaScript using VS2017

I have a group of typescript files in my solution and I am compiling these to JS using typescript features directly within Visual Studio 2017. I am using tsconfig.json file. I am able to bundle the output JS files in either VS or tsconfig. I am able…
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zen coding not working in Visual Studio

I have Web Essentials 2015.2 installed. When I, for instance, type "div" and then hit tab, it just selects the following block of html rather than adding a div tag. No zen coding features are working. I'm using VS 2015 Pro Update 3 RC (version…
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IIS Express loads and unloads modules for each request

We have an ASP.NET project using IIS Express while debugging. After starting VS2013, then loading the solution, building the solution and starting the web application in debug mode, the output window lists a bunch of DLLs that get loaded and…
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