Visual Studio Web Essentials is a VS extension by Mads Kristensen that assists with the development of CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript and CoffeeScript.
To install Visual Studio Web Essentials, go to http://vswebessentials.com/ and select Download. We will install on Visual Studio 2015:

Select the version to install:

This will download a VSIX file. Open it:
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Click to install:

You will see:

Once installed, open Visual Studio:
Go to Tools->Options:

Select Web Essentials. You will see:

Click OK. We will also download the Web Extension Pack:

Install the VSIX file:
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Open Visual Studio. You may see:

Go to Tools->Options. You will see:

There are several things you can do with Web Essentials, that we will go into in future posts.
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