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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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How to use bootstrap less through Nuget package manager in Visual Studio 2013 with Web Essentials Update 2

As I don't have the ability to comment on a previous post and my answer therefor was deleted. A whole new thread just for the following question: When you install bootstrap less through visual studio 2013's Nuget package manager, it seems all the…
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How can I disable TypeScript preview?

Here's my context. I have a small screen at work Typescript preview screen does not remember its previous size and its annoying having to collapse it every time I open a TS file Web Essentials new version does not have TypeScript option where we…
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Prevent Web Essentials JsHint "ko is not defined" warning when using Knockout

On an ASP.NET MVC 5 project using bundling and minification, I have a Javascript view model that I populate in the .cshtml file. The view model references knockout via ko, which works fine. However the JsHint output that comes from Web Essentials…
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VS2013 Ultimate Preview + Web Essentials 2013 RC not compiling LESS?

I'm not getting any errors, I just can't for the life of me get CSS out of the LESS files in my solution on build or save. I've restarted everything and installed from scratch to no avail - it's just not working. What can I do to troubleshoot…
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What do these Web Essentials options do?

I see these menu options for my asp.net project beneath the Web Essentials menu: Create solution settings Create color palette Create markdown stylesheet The official site for Web Essentials doesn't seem to be too forthcoming about just what these…
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TypeScript source map files don't work with Chrome

I'm trying to get TypeScript source debugging working in Chrome, but I'm running into two specific and perhaps related problems. The first is that the comment generated by the TypeScript/WebEssentials compiler that's supposed to identify the…
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Visual Studio Browser Link not working in Firefox

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and Browser Link doesn't work with Firefox. IE and Chrome work perfectly with Browser Link. Just got a new machine, but that didn't help either. I tried the prerequisites mentioned in the browserlink dashboard (for…
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Treat TSLint warnings as errors in Visual Studio 2013

I would like to achieve the following: Show all TypeScript lint warnings as errors in the Error List. Have this set up by default for anyone who opens the project/solution. Break the build if there are lint errors, even if using standalone…
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What does "Class emulation may be converted to class" hint mean in Visual Studio and where does it come from?

I am working on a large TypeScript application in VS 2013. I have ReSharper and WebEssentials installed. Time to time when I have an exported module level function, "something" underlines it and hints that "Class emulation may be converted to…
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Sass failing to compile - Web Essentials 2013 Update 4 "Unable to find resource"

Does anybody have an idea, what causes the following error? 23.07.2015 17:48:14: SCSS: Compiling widgetmain.scss 23.07.2015 17:48:14: Looking for resource @ http://localhost.:55559/ 23.07.2015 17:48:14: Looking for resource @…
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Uninstall web essentials

I have downloaded a .vslx file and installed which cuases web essentials to be part of VS 2012. This may be a silly question. But How can I remove the webessentials from vs.I cannot find such an option in VS 2012. I found it total messy
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Visual Studio 2015 RC missing using option in quick actions

I have no idea what changed, but either using Ctrl+. or right clicking to bring up the quick actions in VS2015 RC (14.0.22823.1) on a token that I haven't added the right using statement used to give me an option to automatically add it for me,…
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How can I restore Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 to Visual studio 2013 update 4 without uninstalling entire product

I have to use Web Essentials 2013 but it is not available for Visual studio 2013 update 5.I would have to have VS 2013 update 4 installed in order to install Web Essentials 2013. Is there is any way I can install VS 2013 update 4 without…
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Web Essentials SCSS compile error

I am trying to compile the SCSS files in a projetc using Visual Studio 2013 and Web Essentials. Here is the error I am getting in the visual studio output window is Something went wrong reaching:…
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VS Web Essentials - Generate .css.map files

Is there a way to make VS Web Essentials generate .map files for minimized .css files? It'll do it for less-generated .css files, but I haven't figured out how to do it for regular minified .css files. Obviously, I could rename the .css files as…
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