Web Essentials 2012

Web Essentials extends Visual Studio 2012 with a lot of new features that web developers have been missing for many years.

If you ever write CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript or LESS, then you will find many useful features that make your life as a developer easier.

This is for all Web developers using Visual Studio 2012.

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Important! Web Essentials now requires Web Tools 2012.2

What people are saying...

ZenCoding with #WebEssentials is a sweet productivity enhancement! CSS as a template language for expansion is awesome!

Rick Strahl

If you're a web developer using VS2012 and haven't installed Web Essentials, you're doing it wrong. Fav new feature: Zen Coding support!

Brad Wilson

Absolutely essential plug in! Web Essentials is a huge productivity enhancer helping me write CSS, HTML and JS faster and with less mistakes.

John Papa

Web Essentials is just that - essential. It's the Web Team's most important feature playground. It's a peek into the future of Visual Studio.

Scott Hanselman