James Ray Anderson

James Ray Anderson
James Ray Anderson
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Visual Studio IDE Extensions

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If you are developing in Visual Studio you NEED these extensions.  They will make what you do easier and faster.

Web Essentials.
  • Live Web Preview for CSS
  • Vendor Specific Property Generation
  • Color Preview
  • Font Preview on Mouse Over (sweet!)
  • Alphabetize properties
  • Convert RGB to Hex or color name
  • Browser specific Smart Tags (target IE 6 only, IE 7 only, etc.)
  • JavaScript Minification
  • CSS Minification
  • Free
CSS Cop
Install it and then use it by right-clicking on the style sheet in the Solution Explorer and selecting Run CSSCop.
  • Adhere to best practices for writing stylesheets
  • Catches common errors
  • Free

Image Optimizer
  • Optimizes PNGs, GIFs, Animated GIFs, and JPGs
  • Single image or Entire Folders
  • Uses the Yahoo! SmushIt API
  • Free

Minifier
  • Minify JavaScript Files (Google Closure Compiler)
  • Minify CSS files (YUI Compressor)
  • Free

Spell Checker
  • Spell check plain text files, source code comments and strings
  • Free

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