I recently installed Chirpy v2.01 for Visual Studio 2010 and am very excited about the features it offers. I'm running into some issues in the LESS domain, however.
As a first step, I copied over my existing .css file to a new LESS file. I immediately am getting two errors. The first is due to a CSS "filter" property that I have set:
div.someClass {
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#aaaaaa', endColorstr='#000000');
}
This apparently is because the filter value is not technically valid css. LESS has a workaround for this, via escaping. Adding a tilde in front of a quoted section tells LESS to keep the value as-is. The following change should resolve the issue:
div.someClass {
filter: ~"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#aaaaaa', endColorstr='#000000')";
}
Upon saving the file, I still receive an error in the visual studio error console along these lines:
Error 54 Expected '}' on line 2 in file 'C:\Users\Administrator\Projects\Project\Content\test.chirp.less': [1]: body { [2]: filter: ~"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#aaaaaa', endColorstr='#000000')"; ----^ [3]: } C:\Users\Administrator\Projects\Project\Content\test.chirp.less 2 5 Project
The .css files are never generated so long as this error comes up. I came across the following site that seems to describe the issue I'm having, but in a more generic DotLess .NET package. I tried adding this package to my project, but it didn't make a difference. It also looks like it relies on the server to handle the .less to .css conversion, instead of the IDE, as chirpy does.
The second error that I constantly receive, though it doesn't seem to actually stop the generation of the .css files, is the following:
Error 53 Fatal error, cannot continue: null cannot be converted to an object C:\Users\Administrator\Projects\Project\Content\test.css 1 1 Project
I'd really love to use the LESS functionality that Chirpy offers, but until I can figure out why these errors are happening, I'm limited to using it for mash.
