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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 show / unhide Web Essential bar from chrome?

I've checked autohide and the bar disappeared but now how can I see it again?
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Google Chrome "Failed parsing SourceMap" : css.map (Web Essential)

Visual Studio 2013 UP5 + Web Essential's (v. 2.6.36) generated css.map files are invalid in "Google Chrome", however it is valid in "Firefox". Due to this it became impossible to debug less files in google chrome. Currently, I am using Web…
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Chrome not loading CSS source maps?

Until recently, my Chrome browser was loading CSS source map files correctly. Now, it is not. The setting is on: And the CSS files have a source mapping tag at the bottom: /*# sourceMappingURL=Home.cshtml.css.map */ But the Network tab and…
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How can I configure Web Essentials 2013 to ignore files?

I have a fresh MVC 5.1 web app project in VS 2013 (Update 1) w/ Web Essential 2013 (latest as of today) installed. After building the project, Web Essentials scans for javascript files and post messages to the output window for any issues it finds.…
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How can I disable JSCS in Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2013?

How might I disable JSCS in the latest version of Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2013? I was unable to find a relevant option in the menu. I tried setting the JSCS configuration to ignore all files. This caused it to occasionally generate messages…
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Prevent Web Essentials in Visual Studio from returning Foundation column validation errors

Using Visual Studio 2013 & Web Essentials 2013 for Update 2. I'm getting many errors from the Foundation validation in the VS Error List, which is rather annoying. When using "columns", you must also specify the class "small-#", "medium-#" or…
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Web Essentials Browser Link not Working in Visual Studio 2015 for only ASP.net 5 applications

Installed Web Essentials in my new computer but I cannot get Browser Link working with ASP.NET 5 / MVC6 web Applications projects. Works Fine with ASP.NET 4.5 however. This is what I have tried so far. My project.json has following dependencies…
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Scss global variables across files

This is in VS 2013 update 3. I declared the variables in _variables.scss: $fontFamily: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; $shapeColor: #ACAEAA; ... Then it is imported at the very beginning of my main.scss as below: @import '_variables.scss'; @import…
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Visual Studio Intellisense issue: Unknown CSS class 'some-class'

I'm developing in Visual Studio 2013 Premium along with Web Essentials 2013 (update 4) an MVC 5 application with LESS for my CSS preprocessor. Web Essentials automatically compiles the files upon saving of the .less file. The issue I am having is…
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How to ignore certain LESS files in Web Essentials LESS compiling? (Bootstrap)

I've set up Web Essentials 2013 (in Visual Studio 2012) and loaded in the default Twitter Bootstrap LESS source files. Auto-build and minification is working perfectly, except Web Essentials quite overdoes the job. When I select "bootstrap.less",…
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How to compile Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 LESS using Asp.net MVC 5 and Web Essentials 2013

I've set up Visual Studio 2013 RC and Web Essentials 2013. I'm trying to create an Azure Cloud Service and a Web Role using ASP.Net MVC 5. Installed Twitter Bootstrap Less Source 3.0 and wanted to bundle all less files using Web Essentials 2013. I…
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Less not work with WebEssentials in visual studio 2012

When i create a less file with .less extension, WebEssentials not show less syntax(intellisence, colored syntax) And not appear preview page, ever not known less files! also all of less options in WebEssentials settings is enabled. what is…
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How do you use JsHint ".jshintrc" file with Visual Studio 2013 Web Essentials extension?

I have installed the "Web Essentials" extension into Visual Studio 2013. I am now getting JSHint warnings appearing in my "Error List" window under the Messages section. However, it is complaining about some global variables that it thinks are not…
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Error after build - Web Essentials 2012

I got this error very frequent for my asp.net MVC4 applications. The project does build OK but it shows a message in the output. 18/04/2013 3:17:57 p.m.: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at…
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LESS compiler and relative @import references not working in Web Essentials 2012 v2.7

The update to v2.6 works from with VS 2012 and I have the Web Tools 2012.2 update installed, but a problem that I noticed that does not exist in the v2.5.1 version (I downgraded to fix for now) is that the @import lines in LESS files do not locate…
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