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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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System.Web.Optimization.Bundle vs. WebEssentials bundling

What are the differences between System.Web.Optimization.Bundle and the bundling operation in WebEssentials Visual Studio plugin? I mean not only the final result which should be pretty much the same, but also the internals, esp. the differences (if…
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Cannot install WebEssentials - "extension not installable on ... installed products"

I just decided it was time to refresh WebEssentials. I am running Visual Studio 2013 Pro. I had W.E. 2013 Update 2 RC. I uninstalled it and then tried to install the current Update 3. It tells me I have no products that it can install…
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Web essentials changing relative paths in compiled css

I am using Web Essentials 2013 in a project to compile less to css on build/save. However, I am having problems with that when compiling, WE is tampering the relative paths to fonts/images etc. For example: .footer { background:…
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Web Essentials Browser Link not Work in Visual Studio 2013

I updated my project from ASP.NET MVC 4 to 5 in visual studio 2013, But now Web Essentials Browser Link not work, why? even Browser Link not show in browser!
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Using Web Essentials 2013 to generate typescript intellisense file not working

I have visual studio 2013 installed with web essentials 2013. I right-click a .cs file and select "Web Essentials -> Create Typescript intellisense file", such that I get a typescript d.ts file that I can reference in the typescript code. I ran…
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Browser Link JS error on page load

Using Visual Studio 2013 RTM and Web Essentials I get the following JavaScript error in Chrome on page load. Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: div.main/PhoneIcon.png My best guess is that it is referring to the following line…
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Typescript 0.9 + Knockout: strange compiler errors

I just upgraded my code to Typescript 0.9, updated the DefinitelyTyped definitions of Jquery, JqueryUI, Knockout, Knockout.Mapping and Knockout.Validation. The code seemingly compiles, I see the correct output js files. Yet VS underlines EVERY use…
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Changing web essentials output location for compiled less files

How do I change the location where Web Essentials place my compiled Less css files?
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Web Essentials LESS Compiler gives no Error Messages

With Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, Web Essentials 2.7. Suppose there is an error in LESS. When saving the file, a message is shown in the preview pane. It reads... /* Compile Error. See error list for details */ It does not matter, what kind of…
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LESS files in Visual Studio not syntax highlighted

I have just installed Web Essentials 2012 for VS2012, but when I open a .less file, nothing is highlighted and the preview window doesn't display. Are there any settings or something I am missing to make this work?
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Visual Studio 2012 and Web Essentials 2012 crashes on builds

I've installed Web Essentials 2.5.1 and typescript 0.8.3; however, now Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate immediately crashes upon builds. The crashes stop if I uninstall Web Essentials. Does anyone have any suggestions to remedy the crashes? Thanks.
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Did web essentials remove Less editor?

I just updated web essentials and now I have no syntax highlighting or compile. In the change notes I can read that "Removed LESS/CoffeeScript editors" in version 2.5, but the options for less are still there?!. Whatta? Why?
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LESS @import & Web Essentials 2012

In my web project I have split my CSS into separate LESS files for maintenance reasons. I have a file called config.less acting as a master file that imports the other less files, using @import directives. The problem with this setup seems to be…
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Web Essentials 2015 WebEssentials-Settings.json File?

In Web Essentials 2013 you could include your Web Essentials settings in a .json file (aptly named WebEssentials-Settings.json) at the solution level to ensure that everyone working on the project was using the same settings. One of the nicer…
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Web essentials not showing typescript preview

I must be missing something really basic. I'm playing with Typescript. Based on this link: http://vswebessentials.com/features/typescript I thought that Web Essentials should be giving me a split-pane window so that I could observe the javascript…
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