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Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Gulp Episode II: First Task

Brett M. Nelson - Tuesday, April 28, 2015

This is the second post in a series about using Gulp with Visual Studio. If you missed the first post feel free to take the time to go back and read it Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Gulp - Episode I...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Gulp - Episode I: Getting Started

Brett M. Nelson - Sunday, April 26, 2015

In ASP.NET 5 Bundling and Minification will not be handled by Visual Studio. To achieve the same results as was possible with the ASP.NET of yesteryear (or earlier today if that's your thing) a bui...

jspm err Error locating github:...

Brett M. Nelson - Friday, April 17, 2015

While trying to install some files through jspm the other day I kept receiving an error. Oh noes! E:WorkspaceCurrentProject>jspm install Looking up npm:font-awesome Downloading npm:f...

Updating Aurelia

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, April 9, 2015

The other day a new version of the 'pre-alpha' client framework Aurelia was released. It was accompanied by a blog post at Durandal.io. It contained a section titled "How to Update" that ...

Visual Studio Open Command Line Extension

Brett M. Nelson - Tuesday, April 7, 2015

When working in Visual Studios it sometimes becomes required to open the command line in your current folder structure. While it's possible to Window + X choose command prompt and cd your way to yo...

ASP.NET 5 and Static Files

Brett M. Nelson - Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Things are changing on the web in the Microsoft world. ASP.NET 5 uses a different approach to static files than previous iterations. While before the root of your project was the root of your websi...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 And External Tools

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Ladies, Gents and Paperclips at Microsoft are taking the easy road with some aspects of the web development tool chain this go around. Instead of reinventing the wheel that the rest of the web ...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and ECMAScript 6

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, March 5, 2015

Did you realize it's possible to write and use ECMAScript 6 (ES6) today? Projects like Traceur and Babel make it possible to write JavaScript as described by the ES6 standard and use a transpiler t...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 and 6 gulpfile Issue

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, February 26, 2015

I've been trying out Visual Studio 2015 CTP (Community Technology Preview 5 for those of you who are curious to know what CTP means but not curious enough to look it up) for a while now and I was h...

Angular Directive to wrap a jQuery plugin

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, February 19, 2015

The other day at work I started working on a project that had made heavy use of a jQuery plugin for masking date inputs. I was re-implementing some things with Angular and had to maintain the same ...

console.log(“Hello World”);

Brett M. Nelson - Thursday, January 29, 2015

Thought I would start this off with introducing myself. My name is Brett and I am a software developer in Minnesota with experience in the .Net web stack and a few JavaScript libraries. I thought I...