The easiest way to set up Visual Studio for the ultimate development experience. Requires Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 or newer.

See the change log for changes and road map.

After installing the Web Essentials and restarting Visual Studio, the following extensions will be installed:

• Add New File

It doesn't take long to install the extensions. Probably less than a minute. The progress is shown in the new Task Status Center in the left corner of the Status Bar.

When installation is done you will be prompted to restart Visual Studio. After the restart, all the extensions are fully functional and ready to use.

If you've uninstalled any of the extensions installed by Web Essentials, then those extensions won't be installed again automatically.

To reset this behavior go to Tools -> Web Essentials...

This will show the Activity Log for Web Essentials.

From here you can reset the extension. This will attempt to install any of the extensions previously uninstall or for other reasons are not currently installed.

If you know of any good extensions that you think would benefit web developers, then log an issue with the suggestion on the GitHub issue tracker.

Check out the contribution guidelines if you want to contribute to this project.

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools 2015 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

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