Web Essentials 2012

I'm attempting to use the 'compile on build' option for less and it doesn't seem to be working.  (latest version, 2.7)  I change a dependent file, hit compile and the main less file that imports that file doesn't get rebuilt.  The only way I can get the main less file to regenerate the css is to go into it directly and hit save.  Am I doing something wrong?

I have a couple of .less files that do no more than facilitate the inclusion of smaller less files -- such as a responsive grid LESS file that sets up media queries and then imports each break, in a total of 6 @import calls (one for grid setup, one for design, for Desktop | Mobile | Tablet). 

When I try to save these files I notice a cscript.exe thread getting up to about 2GB of RAM and then breaking. Is there anyway I can debug this extension to give a better understanding of where this breaks? I get an empty error that simply states 'LESS: '

I'm a dummy. The issue I was having was from not using @import-once. I believe @import-once is removed in the latest version of LESS so that's probably why I decided to remove them from my code.

Hi!

Just upgraded from 2.5.1 to 2.6, and all our cross-project imports stopped working. Like this:

@import "../../../../Themes/MiP.Theme/Styles/mip-mixins.less";

This worked before but now gives the following compiler error:
LESS: Couldn't load themes/MiP.Theme/Styles/mip-mixins.less (404)

Can you fix this please? :) Or tell us what we're doing wrong. Or provide some kind of workaround. We are not very keen on duplicating all our less files... :)

Has this been addressed, or is there a workaround?

Same problem here.

The interesting thing is that LESS is supposed to be handled by Web Tools now since 2.5. Reverting back to the 2.5.1 download from http://vswebessentials.com/changelog fixed my problem. I imagine both Web Tools and Web Essentials have some conflicting dependency for path resolution. 

Reverted to 2.5.1 also and all seems well... for now.  Just wish I knew if this is a bug in 2.6 or an intentional change.

I am seeing this issue in 2.6 inside of the same project - rolling back to 2.5.1 has not resolved the issue.  Think there may be a remnant lurking somewhere after the uninstall.

3 cycles of uninstall and reinstall later - 2.5.1 now functioning as expected.

See this thread for the description of the issue and for a possible workaround: http://forums.asp.net/p/1900852/5371528.aspx/1?p=True&t=635022256782196589

Alternatively you can just downgrade the less compiler from v1.3.3 to v1.3.1 which fixes the issue. See here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15691713/less-compiler-and-relative-import-references-not-working-in-web-essentials-2012

The "Replace with original 1.3.0" workaround here http://forums.asp.net/p/1900852/5371528.aspx/1?ASP+NET+and+Web+Tools+2012+2+bug+in+resolving+imports+in+LESS+files+workaround+included worked for me.

It looks like the problem is really with Web Tools. I imagine that Web Tools or Web Essentials or both fiddles with the scripts in that directory so reveting to 2.5 reverts the 1.3.3 script to 1.3.0

This bug remains in Web Essentials 2.7 as the LESS version is still 1.3.3 and has not been reverted (though the script file name is less-1.3.0.js).

Reverting to v1.3.0 in Web Essentials 2.7 doesn't work for me. Instead, it just keeps creating threads that go to compile the LESS but just consume memory.

Is there some magic setting to get JSDoc comments to be parsed for IntelliSense?  I can't seem to get this working in 1.7.  I have a simple test file with the following:

/**
 * Does something.
 * 
 * @param {string} myParam
 */
function doSomething(myParam) {

}

Inside the function, myParam seems to have no type information.  Outside, inline documentation just spits out the whole unformatted comment block for doSomething.  Anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?  Thanks!

I am having the exact same problem.  JSDOC does *NOT* work as described.  Am I missing something?  I am using the exact same format as dornif:

/**
 * Does something.
 * 
 * @param {string} myParam
 */
function doSomething(myParam) {

}

But when attempting to use 'doSomething', Intellisense just dumps out the entire comment block (/* ... */) above the function instead of providing the intellisense I expect for each parameter.

Jade is a really nice alternative to typing Html manually. The best Jade engine is in node, but to get to use it for non-node apps aswell using it as a pre-processor would be a nice alternative. WebStorm already does this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15492624/auto-compile-jade-in-webstorm-on-windows 

Hello , 

Do you plan on bringing a SCSS/SASS support any time soon ? there is another plugin for that , but it doesn't feel as polished as yours and it brings a ton of other features that i don't really need.

Thanks!

I would like to echo the sentiments of Aviatrix. I use the "other" plug-in and it doesn't feel as polished as this (and I pay for it). I don't like LESS as much as SCSS (a.k.a. SASS) and that other plug-in is the only one of it's kind to work with visual studio.

I have WE 2.6 installed on my work and home PC's, both with VS 2012.2. The css files show linked under the less file on my home PC, but not on my work PC. Both MVC 4.0 apps. Is there a setting I'm missing?

I have noticed that when I rename an aspx file, the code behind drops the .aspx part and visual studio does not nest the file. Through trial and error I managed to find out that it is Web Essentials 2012 that is causing the issue and with the Plugin disabled it doesn't occur.

I can confirm the bug and it's REALLY annoying one :(

Hi,

Making a CSS bundle crashes VS2012 if one of the CSS files do NOT belong to the project.  On a whim, I added the CSS to the project and the error no longer occurred.

Trace...
System.NullReferenceException was unhandled
  HResult=-2147467261
  Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  Source=WebEssentials2012
  StackTrace:
       at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.FileHelpers.RelativePath(String absPath, String relTo)
       at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.BundleFilesMenu.WriteFile(String filePath, IEnumerable`1 files, String extension, String output)
       at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.BundleFilesMenu.<>c__DisplayClasse.<CreateBundlefile>b__a()
       at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
       at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)
       at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl()
       at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeInSecurityContext(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()
       at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue()
       at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
       at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)

Hi,

with build typescript on save checked, whenever I now build my project the output from web essentials (ver 2.6 vs2012) contains the following exceptions ;

15/04/2013 15:54:01: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()
15/04/2013 15:54:01: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()
15/04/2013 15:54:01: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()
   at MadsKristensen.EditorExtensions.ProjectHelpers.GetRootFolder()

Any ideas, I've uninstalled and reinstalled without any success.

Thanks,

sorry that should have been 'with compile on build' switched on, this is an mvc 4 application.

This seems to be related to out web project, which contains the typescript files, being contained in a solution folder. 

remove it from the solution folder and place at the root of the solution, and it works fine.