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CoffeeScript, Sass and LESS support for Visual Studio and ASP.NET with the Mindscape Web Workbench
Jul 1122There's some really impressive stuff happening in the .NET Community lately. Folks are reaching outside their standard built-in tools and pulling inspiration from everywhere. It's been said that (some) Microsoft developers don't like to use tools or technologies that aren't built in to Visual Studio. However, myself and others have been pushing the concept of LEGO blocks snapping together. Rather than thinking of Visual Studio as a giant single block, consider it as a small block amongst many...
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Now Visual Studio 2010 supports new web standards
Jun 1116Today the Web Platform and Tools team (I can see the influence of Mads in this) announced the release of the Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1. What sits behind this cryptic name? Shouldn’t Visual Studio already support web standards? Actually, not the latest ones. In January Microsoft released the support for HTML5 in the context of intellisense and validation in VS2010 SP1, but all the other related standards, CSS3 and all the new JavaScript standards were left o...
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Announcing the Web Standards Update - HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
Jun 1115Folks have been asking When will VS2010 support HTML5? I've been saying, jokingly, that the answer is yesterday as there's nothing keeping you from creating HTML5 in Visual Studio or ASP.NET today. However, there's no intellisense and there's lots of squiggly lines that make people uncomfortable. Combine all that with the fact that HTML5 is a moving target, and it's unclear. We've said before that the next version of Visual Studio will have better support HTML5, but what about today? Today,...
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