One of the plug-ins that I use the most in Visual Studio is Web Essentials.  It has a large set of features designed to make life easier for developers to get their jobs done.   Today I read the article by Visual Studio Time Saver – Faster HTML Coding by Susan Ibach where she talks about the Zen Coding feature in Web Essentials.  For as many years I have used Web Essentials this is not a feature that I am familiar with.  It’s incredible!  Here is a list of links to different places to get additional information on Web Essentials and tips on how to use Zen Coding.

• Web Essentials: A Visual Studio Extension
• YouTube: Web Essentials
• Twitter: #WebEssentials
• John Papa: Zen Coding in Visual Studio 2012 (A Quick Reference)
• YouTube: Zen Coding

As a bonus check out vstips in Twitter.  There some great suggestions in there for making Visual Studio easier to use.

Here is a link to the video Susan referenced that shows how to use the Zen Coding functionality.