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<h1 style="text-align: center;">hanselminutes #377</h1>
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<li>] LJ - <a href="http://hanselminutes.com/377/open-sourcing-web-essentials-mads-kristensen-and-the-front-end-developer" target="_blank">hanselminutes podcast# 377</a> -</li>
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<li>] discussion on the open source MSFT tool 'web essentials' with lead developer / product manager Mads Kristensen of MSFT</li>
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<li>] web essentials(VS-WE) &nbsp;is -&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;an extension for the Visual Studio IDE that provides enhancements to the ] CSS editor ] HTML editor ] ...&nbsp;</li>
<li>] extension like ] coderush, ] resharper extensions which provide diff</li>
<li>] testbed / development spec for stuff that will/may eventually works its way into the VS&nbsp;ide</li>
<li>] extensable -</li>
<li>] open source</li>
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<li>] css editor -</li>
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<li>] extends VS CSS editor w/METH Managed Extensibility framework</li>
<li>] less - ( css precompiler, write your css files using the less lanugage (includes&nbsp;variables, mixins, &nbsp;...) less compiles it into valid css ), preview window,</li>
<li>] sass -&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] html editor - ( also working on )</li>
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<li>] javascript -&nbsp;</li>
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<li>jshint,&nbsp;</li>
<li>code outlining,&nbsp;</li>
<li>regions,&nbsp;</li>
<li>minification on save,&nbsp;</li>
<li>source maps,&nbsp;</li>
<li>js doc comments,</li>
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<li>] typescript - ms type safe language that compiles into javascript</li>
<li>] coffeescript - type safe language that&nbsp;compiles into javascript&nbsp;</li>
<li>] Handlebars, mustache - templating engines(?js), syntax hi-lighting&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;VS-WE is now open source</li>
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<li>] was previously developed by 1 guy(Mads)</li>
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<li>] feature - examples&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] css - hover on css rule - shows which&nbsp;browsers support a particular&nbsp;rule&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li>] paste json as class -</li>
<li>] hijacked 'f1 help' - links to mads website, better help for css than at msdn, xml files linked to each w3c css module</li>
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<li>] browser link ( aka artery)</li>
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<li>] a bi-directional link between VS IDE and web browser</li>
<li>] exstension for web essentials -</li>
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<li>[reference]</li>
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<li>web essentials - <a href="http://vswebessentials.com/" target="_blank">web site</a>, download,</li>
<li>blog post on <a href="http://encosia.com/get-the-lowdown-on-visual-studio-2013-and-web-essentials/" target="_blank">VS 2013 &amp; Web Essentials</a>&nbsp;- Dave Ward</li>
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