At the //build/ conference when Visual Studio 2013 Preview was released, I open sourced Web Essentials 2013 live on stage. So far that has been really successful with 110 pull requests sent by the community. And Visual Studio 2013 is not even out in its final version yet!

Now it’s time to open source Web Essentials 2012 as well. It has taken a little longer than I wanted, but now it’s finally done and published.

The code

The source code for both Web Essentials 2012 and 2013 is on GitHub.

Web Essentials 2012
https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentials2012

Web Essentials 2013
https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentials2013 

Remember to also check out my latest project SideWaffle that I’m building with Sayed and the ASP.NET/Visual Studio community.

I’ve been recording a quite a few videos lately for showing off new features in Visual Studio and Web Essentials. Some videos also shows prototypes of what is coming down the line. The question is  whether or not videos are the right format for this.

Personally, I prefer short demo videos over written articles or blog posts. There’s just something about seeing how a feature works instead of reading about it. However, there are situations where watching videos aren’t an option. For instance when on the bus with no headphones. Written articles works better for me in those situations.

I like doing videos and I’m considering doing more of them on a regular basis. The question is, are videos worthwhile or is a blog post better?

Check out my Youtube channel to get an idea of how I’d like to do the videos going forward.