These are great enhancements over what's in VS 2010. Looking forward to trying them out soon!
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"These are great enhancements over what's in VS 2010. Looking forward to trying them out soon!"
and over VS12 too...good work guys!
Bernie Cook
Big thanks to Mads Kristensen - a very useful tool indeed.
Jag Reehal
This is great stuff.
Any ideas when SASS will be included?
Until then I'll stick with Mindscapes' extension.
Cheers,
Jag
Mads Kristensen
Jag, only .sass files are supported by Web Essentials right now, not .scss. It's too bad because most people will use .scss.
When we finish coding the LESS editor, we'll make a port for .scss. Perhaps in 1-2 months.
Michal Altair Valášek
To use your extension, I converted one fairly complex stylesheet from SCSS to LESS and now I'm torn between your extension and Mindscape Web Workbench :-) Your extension is far better in features.
Unfortunatelly, SCSS is far better for me than LESS - I was basically unable to convert my SCSS to LESS, since it does not know conditions, for-next and @media queries. You already wrote about supporting SCSS in next release, so I'm looking forward to it.
But there is one feature in Web Workbench I would like to see in Web Essentials: Workbench automatically compiles the SCSS (and I believe also the LESS) files into CSS when you save it. Web Essentials have live preview, but they don't save it, so I must use external tools to generate .css from.
Do you plan to include automated "compilation" of LESS/SCSS to Web Essentials? I really prefer to do that on tool level over using solutions like dotLess etc. - they don't play well with web optimization and bundling.
Mads Kristensen
Michal, the reason why I didn't prioritize that feature for Web Essentials is because I don't like the approach of having both the .less/.scss and the generated .css file in the same project. It seems wrong.
Instead, I find it much better to perform the compilation step at runtime through the new Bundling & Minification feature in ASP.NET 4.0 and 4.5 as described here www.asp.net/.../bundling-and-minification
If that doesn't work for you, please create a suggestion at http://webessentials.uservoice.com so it can be prioritized. Thanks!
Ola Johansson
I had some issues with the import feature for less with variables and stuff. I then tried to rename my config file to not use a .less extension since it looks like that in one of you examples above. But then Visual Studio crashed when i even open a .less file with an import to a file that doesn't exist anymore. Let me know if you want more details but it should be pretty easy to recreate i think.
Ola Johansson
Seems to work now.
I also have some issues with the import feature. It does work in your compiled .css but i get errors in the code view as you can see in this screenshot.
http://i.imgur.com/IWCzn.png
For the variables not in my lessconfig file i get "undeclared" and in the lessconfig file i get "unused" variables. And intellisense doesn't seems to work at all not even for mixins even though i don't get any errors from them.
Let me know if you need more info or have any tips if im doing something wrong :)
Daniel
Just a quick question: why not opensource it? I really like this project and i can imagine a ton of developers would love to improve little bits or add features. (Me included :))
Put it on GitHub and give it a try :)
Søren Reinke
Hi Mads
Thanks for the nice extension.
What LESS and CoffeeScript extension would you suggest us to use?
So the LESS file will be compiled into CSS, and the CoffeeScript into Javascript at normal compile time.
Rob
Thanks, it's a great extension! One problem I found though, is that Visual Studio crashes whenever I'm trying to resolve a merge conflict in a .less file until I disable the extension.
Harvey Myers
Tried to download but when it try to execute the downloaded file i get an error "The Extension Manifest is Invalid"
Mariano
Hi Mads !
I love this extension, its very useful
I was wondering if the "Live web preview" was removed from the 2012 version because i can't find it, and using CTRL+ALT+Enter doesn't have any effect
Thx !
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These are great enhancements over what's in VS 2010. Looking forward to trying them out soon!
"These are great enhancements over what's in VS 2010. Looking forward to trying them out soon!" and over VS12 too...good work guys!
Big thanks to Mads Kristensen - a very useful tool indeed.
This is great stuff. Any ideas when SASS will be included? Until then I'll stick with Mindscapes' extension. Cheers, Jag
Jag, only .sass files are supported by Web Essentials right now, not .scss. It's too bad because most people will use .scss. When we finish coding the LESS editor, we'll make a port for .scss. Perhaps in 1-2 months.
To use your extension, I converted one fairly complex stylesheet from SCSS to LESS and now I'm torn between your extension and Mindscape Web Workbench :-) Your extension is far better in features. Unfortunatelly, SCSS is far better for me than LESS - I was basically unable to convert my SCSS to LESS, since it does not know conditions, for-next and @media queries. You already wrote about supporting SCSS in next release, so I'm looking forward to it. But there is one feature in Web Workbench I would like to see in Web Essentials: Workbench automatically compiles the SCSS (and I believe also the LESS) files into CSS when you save it. Web Essentials have live preview, but they don't save it, so I must use external tools to generate .css from. Do you plan to include automated "compilation" of LESS/SCSS to Web Essentials? I really prefer to do that on tool level over using solutions like dotLess etc. - they don't play well with web optimization and bundling.
Michal, the reason why I didn't prioritize that feature for Web Essentials is because I don't like the approach of having both the .less/.scss and the generated .css file in the same project. It seems wrong. Instead, I find it much better to perform the compilation step at runtime through the new Bundling & Minification feature in ASP.NET 4.0 and 4.5 as described here www.asp.net/.../bundling-and-minification If that doesn't work for you, please create a suggestion at http://webessentials.uservoice.com so it can be prioritized. Thanks!
I had some issues with the import feature for less with variables and stuff. I then tried to rename my config file to not use a .less extension since it looks like that in one of you examples above. But then Visual Studio crashed when i even open a .less file with an import to a file that doesn't exist anymore. Let me know if you want more details but it should be pretty easy to recreate i think.
Seems to work now. I also have some issues with the import feature. It does work in your compiled .css but i get errors in the code view as you can see in this screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/IWCzn.png For the variables not in my lessconfig file i get "undeclared" and in the lessconfig file i get "unused" variables. And intellisense doesn't seems to work at all not even for mixins even though i don't get any errors from them. Let me know if you need more info or have any tips if im doing something wrong :)
Just a quick question: why not opensource it? I really like this project and i can imagine a ton of developers would love to improve little bits or add features. (Me included :)) Put it on GitHub and give it a try :)
Hi Mads Thanks for the nice extension. What LESS and CoffeeScript extension would you suggest us to use? So the LESS file will be compiled into CSS, and the CoffeeScript into Javascript at normal compile time.
Thanks, it's a great extension! One problem I found though, is that Visual Studio crashes whenever I'm trying to resolve a merge conflict in a .less file until I disable the extension.
Tried to download but when it try to execute the downloaded file i get an error "The Extension Manifest is Invalid"
Hi Mads ! I love this extension, its very useful I was wondering if the "Live web preview" was removed from the 2012 version because i can't find it, and using CTRL+ALT+Enter doesn't have any effect Thx !