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VS 2012 Web Express and LESS
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12/12/2013 17:53:58
 
General information
Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Visual Studio
Environment versions
Environment:
VB 9.0
OS:
Windows Server 2012
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01589495
Message ID:
01590102
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56
Glad you found it useful. Since you work a lot with data I would also suggest really getting into Breeze.js. It is a data manager from Ideablade (now free - formerly the guts of DevForce) that really is the best way to talk to EF/SQL with a webAPI. Amazing how it handles things. Very good courses on PS on that as well - John Papa has one SPA course using Knockout/Durandel and Breeze and a more recent one using Angular.js and Breeze.js. (and they all use bootstrap).. I've been geeking out on them for a month now and this is the most fun I have had since the early days of VFE and SQL.



>>>>>I would like to start using Less CSS pre-compiler (after reading about it online). But then I read that in order to use Less with VS 2012 you need to install Web Essentials 2012. And then I read (in comments) that Web Essentials will not work with VS 2012 Web Express (which I have). Can I still use LESS without Web Essentials?
>>>>
>>>>I would have thought so. Web Essentials might give you better intellisense and automatic compile but those not be 'essential' :-}
>>>>You could still compile manually (or use the httphandler)
>>>>Disclaimer : just a guess - haven't tried it....
>>>
>>>I will watch a Pluralsight course on LESS today and hopefully I will learn more on the topic. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>While you are over on Pluralsight, pass a quick glance over Shawn's course on Bootstrap 3. I had no idea of the power available there until I checked out that course.
>
>I have been watching Bootstrap 3 course on Pluralsight all day today and I am very impressed. Of course, I will immediately upgrade my site to Boostrap 3 CSS. The only thing, so far from what I have seen, lacking is I don't see too much in terms of classes to style Input element. And as you know, that most of the database web application are Inputs (or asp:Textbox). But all in all it is very useful stuff.
>Thank you for recommending it.


Charles Hankey

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin

Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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