Web Essentials

I see this feature but there is no help for it. What is supported, what not.
Where is a extensive help file for this addon?

Hi,

I can see some dlls in C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions\n1uabqgu.gwu
and I can browse them with dotPeek but I can't find anything that can be useful to write a bundle transform. What I'm looking for is: lessString Compile(cssString). Any hints? I need both the IDE plugin and a component that can be run at runtime.

Thanks

Pawel

I'm using VS 2012 with Web Essentials and when I have a any tag that has a "/" in it, formatting the document adds a space before and after "/" for a font tag it will go from font: 25px/25px Arial; to font: 25px / 25px Arial. When will this be fixed?

With no other extensions but Resharper and NuGet, VS 2010 still treats LESS files as text files (no syntax highlighting or intellisense). Nothing changed after installing this extension re: that.

Is this known or expected? I see something about syntax highlighting that suggests using Mindscape extension, is this a complimentary to the other one? (I thought it can replace it, if for only editing the file, not generating CSS, etc..)

Same for me. I'd be interested to know if this works for anyone else.

I have the same issue. 2012 works great but in 2010, there are no less templates, no split view for .less, no css generation, no highlighting, completion, or collapsing. The extension appears to be installed, but I'd expect to see the Web Essentials options in the options menu, and I don't see it.

I'm using Mindscapes Web Workbench for SASS editing and have discovered a conflict with Web Essentials in the latest release. In version 2.0.451 they have added outlining to the SASS editor and the color preview causes a lot of flickering when I edit (basically syntax highlighting is turned on and off for large parts of the code). It mostly seems to happen after the first preview, but in one instance it happened after the second preview. If I turn of outlining Ctrl-M, Ctrl-P it behaves much better (seems to still be an issue with comment highlighting).
Is there any way I can turn off the color preview feature?

No, you cannot turn features on/off in Web Essentials yet. 

Do you have any fix for this? It's rather annoying

Any progress on this? With every key I press in an SCSS file, the code jumps all over the place as the color swatch seems to be refreshing. It's pretty annoying, and sadly I end up disabling the extension. Is this a Web Essentials problem or a Mindscape issue?

I would like to ask when will be some way to turn off some of the features?
Right now the best js collapse extension is JSEnhancements. The collapsing Web Essentials does is not correct. All other functions are great. If Web Essentials can't collapse the js code like JSEnhacements, at least would be nice to turn that collapsing feature off and the two extensions could live together.

This syntax is fully functioning: -webkit-box-shadow: 4px 4px 10px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, .3), although fails miserably in validation.

Just upgraded to ver. 2.7. When copy/pasting styles in a stylesheet I start getting exceptions on the paste, is this a know issue with this version? Is there any log information to look into? 

I too get this error. I assume it is the dialog "Visual Studio has encountered an exception. This may be caused by an extension...?" Once you click on OK everything continues as normal. VS doesn't crash.

Same here. I pulled a style sheet from the jquery site and pasting it in an aspx page the first time after the document is open resulted in the error. Opening  the page with the stylesheet any time after that there were no messages thrown. I had to close VS and re-open it again to in order to throw the error again.

<style>
	.ui-button { margin-left: -1px; }
	.ui-button-icon-only .ui-button-text { padding: 0.35em; } 
	.ui-autocomplete-input { margin: 0; padding: 0.48em 0 0.47em 0.45em; }
	.ui-autocomplete {
		max-height: 200px;
		overflow-y: auto;
		/* prevent horizontal scrollbar */
		overflow-x: hidden;
		/* add padding to account for vertical scrollbar */
		padding-right: 20px;
	}
	/* IE 6 doesn't support max-height
	 * we use height instead, but this forces the menu to always be this tall
	 */
	* html .ui-autocomplete {
		height: 200px;
	}
	
</style>

Hi,

I currently have build 2.6 installed. When I last ran VS it said there was an update, so it took me to this page.

When I now try to install 2.7, I get:

"This extensioin is already installed to all applicable products."

Thanks for the help,

Will

Just a small bug report: I have found that JS brace matching does not always work.  It appears to be a problem when the braces span a large number of statements or perhaps a complex set of statements.  For example, I have found that braces surrounding my jqGrid definition (roughly 90 lines long) do not get matched.  Not a huge issue, but finding braces that spread out is when brace matching is the most handy.

Thanks,
Joseph Schrag

The dragging of usercontrols to the designer doesn't work if you are doing a website with IIS as the source.  It creates this in the header:
<%@ Register Src="~/http://localhost/e/_resources/controls/ucGoogleAnalytics.ascx" TagPrefix="uc" TagName="ucGoogleAnalytics" %>