ashclarke
commented
10 years ago I worked out that this was a solution settings issue. I posted the issue anyway for reference for anyone facing a similar issue, because I spent a day figuring it out (uninstalling, reinstalling, devenv /setup, devenv /resetuserdata, repair vs 2013, etc. etc).
Our faulting webessentials-settings.json file looked like the following:
{
"BrowserLink": {
"CssIgnorePatterns": "bootstrap*; reset.css; normalize.css; jquery*; toastr*; foundation*; animate*; inuit*; elements*; ratchet*; hint*; flat-ui*; 960*; skeleton*",
"EnableMenu": true,
"EnablePixelPushing": true,
"ShowMenu": false
},
"CodeGen": {
"CamelCasePropertyNames": true,
"CamelCaseTypeNames": false,
"AddTypeScriptReferencePath": true,
"CamelCaseEnumerationValues": false
},
"CoffeeScript": {
"CompileOnBuild": true,
"CompileOnSave": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": true,
"LintOnBuild": false,
"LintOnSave": true,
"LintResultLocation": "Message",
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true,
"WrapClosure": true,
"StrictMath": false,
"ProcessSourceMapsForEditorEnhancements": true
},
"Css": {
"AdjustRelativePaths": true,
"AutoMinify": false,
"GzipMinifiedFiles": false,
"ShowBrowserTooltip": true,
"ShowInitialInherit": false,
"ShowUnsupported": true,
"SyncVendorValues": true,
"ValidateEmbedImages": false,
"ValidateOverQualifiedSelector": true,
"ValidateStarSelector": true,
"ValidateVendorSpecifics": true,
"ValidateZeroUnit": true,
"ValidationLocation": "Messages",
"MakeMinified": true,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"RunOnBuild": true,
"SyncBase64ImageValues": true,
"Autoprefix": false,
"AutoprefixerBrowsers": null
},
"General": {
"AllMessagesToOutputWindow": true,
"KeepImportantComments": true,
"SvgPreviewPane": true
},
"Html": {
"AutoMinify": false,
"EnableAngularValidation": true,
"EnableEnterFormat": false,
"GzipMinifiedFiles": false,
"ImageDropFormats": [
{
"HtmlFormat": "<img src=\"{0}\" alt=\"\" />",
"Name": "Simple Image Tag"
},
{
"HtmlFormat": "<div><img src=\"{0}\" alt=\"\" /></div>",
"Name": "Enclosed in Div"
},
{
"HtmlFormat": "<li id=\"item_{1}\"><img src=\"{0}\" alt=\"\" /></li>",
"Name": "Enclosed as List Item"
},
{
"HtmlFormat": "<div style=\"background-image=url('{0}')\"></div>",
"Name": "Inline CSS"
}
],
"EnableBootstrapValidation": true,
"EnableFoundationValidation": true,
"MakeMinified": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"RunOnBuild": false
},
"JavaScript": {
"AutoMinify": true,
"BlockCommentCompletion": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": false,
"GzipMinifiedFiles": false,
"LintOnBuild": true,
"LintOnSave": true,
"LintResultLocation": "Messages",
"MakeMinified": true,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"RunOnBuild": true
},
"Less": {
"CompileOnBuild": true,
"CompileOnSave": true,
"EnableChainCompilation": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": true,
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true,
"StrictMath": false,
"ProcessSourceMapsForEditorEnhancements": true
},
"Markdown": {
"AutoHyperlink": false,
"AutoNewLines": false,
"CompileOnBuild": false,
"CompileOnSave": false,
"EncodeProblemUrlCharacters": false,
"GenerateXHTML": true,
"LinkEmails": false,
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true,
"StrictBoldItalic": false
},
"Sass": {
"CompileOnBuild": true,
"CompileOnSave": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": true,
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true
},
"SweetJs": {
"CompileOnBuild": false,
"CompileOnSave": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": true,
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true,
"StrictMath": false,
"ProcessSourceMapsForEditorEnhancements": true
},
"TypeScript": {
"BraceCompletion": true,
"LintOnBuild": true,
"LintOnSave": true,
"LintResultLocation": "Error",
"ShowPreviewPane": true
},
"LiveScript": {
"CompileOnBuild": false,
"CompileOnSave": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": true,
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true,
"StrictMath": false,
"WrapClosure": true,
"ProcessSourceMapsForEditorEnhancements": true
},
"Scss": {
"CompileOnBuild": false,
"CompileOnSave": true,
"EnableChainCompilation": true,
"GenerateSourceMaps": false,
"MinifyInPlace": false,
"OutputDirectory": null,
"ShowPreviewPane": true,
"StrictMath": false,
"ProcessSourceMapsForEditorEnhancements": false,
"OutputStyle": "Expanded"
},
"Sprite": {
"CssOutputDirectory": null,
"IsVertical": true,
"LessOutputDirectory": null,
"Optimize": true,
"RunOnBuild": false,
"ScssOutputDirectory": null,
"UseAbsoluteUrl": false,
"UseFullPathForIdentifierName": true
}
}Something here must have changed recently and caused it to break.
am11
Hi guys,
Today a couple of us at work had a nasty encounter with an exception that caused the Web Essentials menu bar to fail to load.
For me, it was causing Visual Studio to crash completely when the project loaded. It successfully loaded, however, when I uninstalled WE.
When it crashed I was able to debug the instance and it said the error originated from MSCorLib.dll.
A colleague of mine managed to get the ActivityLog.xml from the VS 12.0 Roaming folder.
From the ActivityLog.xml:
Both running Windows 8.1, VS 2013 Update 2 & WE 2.2. I also tried with nightly 2.2.3, but encountered the same problem.