Web Essentials

I'm finding that my local web server is accessed every time I build. I had the "Live Web Preview" window open, and it has a "Refresh on Build" option.

There are two issues:
1) The "Refresh on Build" check box cannot be turned off.
2) When I close the "Live Web Preview" window, it is still loading my site on every build.

Please fix so that when the window is closed, it does not run!

Thanks!

(Not sure if this was already talked about, since I can't find a way to search the Q and A.)

I'll get a fix in for the next version. Thanks for reporting this

Not sure if this has already come up, but I just ran into it. It seems that the logic for outlining is slightly flawed. If you have the open and close squiggly braces on the same line, the outlining gets confused:
function myFunc()
{
  if (arguments.length !== 0) { return false; }
}
causes the function's braces to not be outlined; it uses the function's close as the if blocks.

Similarly, if you have two closings on the same line, the outlining gets confused:
if (!myBool)
{
  myObj = {
  }; }
The if's close doesn't register, so outlining is off for the whole file. (I found this testing the first one).
Otherwise, I've been impressed so far!

If a CSS file is opened that references a background-image, this plugin write-locks the file so it can not be overwritten via an external program until Visual Studio is completely closed. (Windows 7 64-bit, Visual Studio 2010 SP1, Web Essentials 2.6) Closing only the CSS file does not help.

That's odd. I haven't experienced that. I'll try to repro and get a fix in. Thanks for the heads-up

Try this:

1. box-shadow: 1 1 1 1 rgba(1, 1, 1, 1)
2. "Add specific property generation"
3. WOW! bad result:
    -moz-box-shadow: 1 1 1 1 rgba(1;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 1 1 1 1 rgba(1;
    -o-box-shadow: 1 1 1 1 rgba(1;
    box-shadow: 1 1 1 1 rgba(1, 1, 1, 1);

Thanks anyway

Currently viewing a page renders in IE7 Mode. Can that be changed? I would like to view it in IE7, IE8, IE 9

Hmm, that's odd. I'll take a look. I always wanted it to use the IE9 mode but didn't configure anything in that regard. Does real IE9 render it in IE9 Standards mode?

Any solution on this? By the way, very very nice extension.
Thank you.

First off, great work!  This tool is simply fantastic :)

Ran into one little issue and I'm only bringing it up because you mentioned having this play nicely with Web Workbench previously.  When editing a .scss file, I tried using the "Alphabetize properties" command on a selector that had a nested selector, and it mangled the nested one ;)

Oh, and one little feature request.  It would be awesome to be able to alphabetize all of the styles in a file as well as expand/collapse all of the outlining.

Again, great work and thanks!

For class library projects, these shortcuts in Solution Explorer window could be removed because they are often not revelant.

This started as soon as I installed the extension

Does this occur in the Live Web Preview browser or your standard IE/Firefox/Chrome/Safari?

I installed this plugin specifically to try out the drag and drop support.

It makes it very easy to add a usercontrol to the page! However I have found a bug in it :) My user control is in a subdirectory but when I dragged it onto the page it add the reference as ~/ as in the root of the site.

Also my personal preference for this is to register the control in web.config rather than at the page level. I do not have a link to hand but Scott Gu has confirmed somewhere on his blog (in a comment I think) that there is no performance penalty to including it on all pages and the asp.net compilation process actually does this anyway.

Just installed the extension and like the functionality.  Regarding the Up and down arrows to control numeric values "Ctrl+Up/Down", it doesn't work for me. When I hover the cursor over numeric value the help tip is displayed but the keystrokes "Ctrl+Up/Down" do nothing.

<img alt="Web Essentials" src="http://aspspider.net/Gregor63/WebEssentials_up_down.gif" />

It isn't activated in other than .css files in version 2.5. I have corrected that and it will make it into version 2.6. Thanks for reporting this!