If you are starting with ASP .NET 5 (1.0.0-rc1-final) and you just want to serve an “index.html”, you can follow these steps: Start Visual Studio 2015 File > New > Project… Installed > Templates…
I upgraded Visual Studio 2015 TypeScript extension to 1.7.6, then compile on save stopped working. First I checked if “Compile on save” was enabled on my 4.5.2 web project properties (TypeScript Build tab): …
When I created an new project with the Node.js tools for Visual Studio 2015, and set a breakpoint in my app, this breakpoint would never be hit. The fix, first make sure, not other…
In my previous post (http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl/?p=4550) I explained how to: - create a new ASP .NET MVC 5 .NET 4.6 project in Visual Studio 2015 - add static caching, add url rewrites - add fingerprinting to…
I like to use client build systems like grunt, gulp, webpack etc. to bundle and minify JavaScript and CSS files, but on a resent project I had to use the Microsoft Web optimization framework. …
Note When you want to run / edit / debug PowerShell scripts inside Visual Studio 2013 / 2015 you will have to install the “PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio” Visual Studio extension found at:…
Windows with a couple of development tools takes up about 126GB of my 128GB SSD, to free-up some space I followed the guide at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToFreeingUpDiskSpaceUnderWindows81.aspx Then I moved the "C:\ProgramData\Package Cache" used by Visual…
When I right clicked on my using statements in a C# file, the context edit menu, didn’t contain the options for refactoring and “organize usings” and the menu item “F12 Go to definition” was grayed…
I Just discovered that Visual Studio will automatically re-minify a css file, when the original not minified version is altered. So I have two file: in a folder including the map files: test.css test.css.map…
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC can be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=44545 It contains many new features for an update: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/10/16/announcing-new-web-features-in-visual-studio-2013-update-4-rc.aspx The thing I like the most: Support for custom elements, polymer-elements…