Image Optimizer

Does this tool work with Visual Web Developer Express 2010?

No, unfortunately it isn't possible to add extensions to the Express edition. Only Microsoft can do that

I had been using your plugin and love it. But reinstalled my computer and now just installed the plugin again and the "Extra Data Uri to ClipBoard Option" option when i right click files is not showing up.

The Optimize images option is there but why cant i see the "Extra Data Uri to ClipBoard Option" option?
Any suggestions?

Thanks

That feature has moved to the Web Essentials plug-in http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6ed4c78f-a23e-49ad-b5fd-369af0c2107f

Always get "No optimization needed" as others have said. Using SVN and my source code control (no VS Plug In) and none of the images are set to read-only in file system...

It could be a permission issue even though the files don't have the read-only flag. Try setting the permissions on your image folder to allow Full Control for the user 'Everyone'.

Well done on the extension, it looks great. However I wasnt able to get it up an running.

I installed it. When I right click on an image (.gif, .jpg, .png) in solution explorer, I dont get the option to Optimize the image, its greyed out.

If I right click on a folder and click optimize images - the output window reports "No optimization needed" for each image. This occurs with every folder containing images I try.

I have tried to extract a data uri via a css stylesheet or by right clicking on the image, but the option is never available to me.

I have installed this extension on 2 seperate PC's and have same issue. I disabled all other extensions thinking there may be a conflict but no luck.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong? I downloaded the latest version and installed that. Any tips as to where I am going wrong?

I am also missing the dataURI functionality, If I right click on an image in the CSS file I have no options to convert it to base64. The only options I have that are Image Optimizer related are just the plain vanilla Optimize images on folders in the solution explorer. I am using VS2010SP1 Ultimate on Windows 7. The functionality I was hoping to get from the extension seems to be missing for me.

I'm getting the same message "No optimization needed" for every image/folder I try.  Either I am just awesome, which I'm not or it's not working right.

This is probably because you're image files are under source control. Check them out first and then run Image Optimizer. I'm working on an update that will check out the files from source control automatically 

Hi Mads,

I have an issue with Image optimizer while using Team foundation, whilst the images are not checked out, the image optimizer status says that there is no need to optimize the images, after I check them out, the optimizer does his job, so there is something to optimize after all. Anyway I drilled it down to the conclusion that you need to remove the read only attribute from the images and then it works fine, and that's what TFS does to your local files when they are not checked out for edit.

Hi Mads, 
I'm getting the following error when trying your extension.  I'm guessing it might be a firewall issue but I don't have much information to go on.  Any clue?
Thanks

An exception occurred during a WebClient request.

This looks awesome! :-)

Just a quick question -- is there a blog post somewhere which describes how the image embedding in CSS is handled? I'm asking because this is known to be problematic, see fx http://www.phpied.com/the-proper-mhtml-syntax/

Is there something I can do to fix this error?

That's an odd directory. It should be the working directory of VS 2010. I'll update the extension to use the Windows Temp folder instead. Stay tuned

The extension no longer uses .exe files for optimization but web services, so the problem is solved

can you update your VSIX, so that the summary is more than "information about my package". I think you might have just missed filling in that field in the .vsix manifest.

Just did. thanks for heads up