diff --git a/apps/tests/ui/tab-view/tab-view-tests.ts b/apps/tests/ui/tab-view/tab-view-tests.ts
index e6d240587..e846ab657 100644
--- a/apps/tests/ui/tab-view/tab-view-tests.ts
+++ b/apps/tests/ui/tab-view/tab-view-tests.ts
@@ -384,7 +384,6 @@ export var testWhenSettingSelectedIndexProgramaticallySelectedIndexChangedEventI
     }
 }
 
-
 export var testWhenNavigatingBackToANonCachedPageContainingATabViewWithAListViewTheListViewIsThere = function () {
     return;
 
diff --git a/node-tests/test-xml.ts b/node-tests/test-xml.ts
index 713049dd1..d5703a0a4 100644
--- a/node-tests/test-xml.ts
+++ b/node-tests/test-xml.ts
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ describe("xml parser", () => {
     });
 
     it("handles whitespace around attribute =", () => {
-        let attributes = null;
-        let element = null;
-
         parser.parse("<TextField text = \n 'hello' />");
 
         assert.equal('TextField', last_element);
diff --git a/ui/page/page.ios.ts b/ui/page/page.ios.ts
index 255ac6779..87511e22a 100644
--- a/ui/page/page.ios.ts
+++ b/ui/page/page.ios.ts
@@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ export class Page extends pageCommon.Page {
         return this.ios.view;
     }
 
-
     protected _showNativeModalView(parent: Page, context: any, closeCallback: Function, fullscreen?: boolean) {
         (<any>this)._isModal = true;
 
diff --git a/ui/styling/style-scope.ts b/ui/styling/style-scope.ts
index 3015b6d45..2342cbd68 100644
--- a/ui/styling/style-scope.ts
+++ b/ui/styling/style-scope.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import view = require("ui/core/view");
 import trace = require("trace");
-import visualState = require("ui/styling/visual-state");
 import cssSelector = require("ui/styling/css-selector");
 import cssParser = require("js-libs/reworkcss");
-import VisualState = visualState.VisualState;
+import {VisualState} from "ui/styling/visual-state";
 import application = require("application");
 import utils = require("utils/utils");
 import types = require("utils/types");