Web Tools 2012.2 and Web Essentials

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Hi Mads, After installing new version of Web Essentials(2.5.1) and then Web Tools 2012.2, LESS files are displayed as regular text files, but solution explorer shows structure(Classes, IDs, Mixins etc) correctly. When I try to use 'Open With', it has 'LESS Editor(Default)' selected. Uninstallation of Web Essentials does not help. Is any way to fix it? Thanks.

Try starting Visual Studio with the /setup flag. (devenv /setup) This solved the issue here. Note: You'll need administrator privileges. Cheers!

Unfortunately, it does not work for me.

Cannot update, because visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com is down. ;-)

I'm having the same problem with the no longer getting a LESS Editor. Using 'Open With' I don't even have LESS Editor in the list anymore, and looking at the change log for Web Essentials at http://vswebessentials.com/changelog it's actually showing the LESS/CoffeeScript editors as being 'Removed', so why do you list 'First class LESS editor' as one of the new features?

Apparently it was removed from Web Essentials 2012.2 and instead added to Web Tools 2012.2, installing that now. Not a lot of transparency on that though, and because of the identical version numbers I hadn't realized the two were different components.

I tried installing the web tools 2012.2 and repeated it several times based on release notes. Still I can't find the project types. The extension says it is installed but I don't see the new project types and other features.

Hi Mads, just a quick note on a similar topic. When i updated my web essentials to 2012.2 I get the following error when opening my solutions: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Less.Core.LessMixinDeclaration' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Extensions, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. Uninstalling web essentials allows the solutions to load and installing Web Tool 2012.2 and then web essentials afterwards sorts it. Just a heads up if it's worth adding to the list of potential exceptions. Cheers, Doug

I was able to get past that error by installing the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 [http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=282650]. I thought I had it installed already and VS didn't detect that a new version was available, but I can't argue with the results. Hope it works for you too.

Nice tools Mads ! Thanks !

Same problem for me. Less editor not working and both extensions are installed.

great tools. thanks.

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Why is this a separate download and not part of the Visual Studio Extensions and Updates?

Same issue that all previous comments : in the solution explorer I have the structure of the less file, but the file itself is displayed as a "simple" text file. Runned the devenv.exe /setup with administrator privileges, nothing happened.

Guys as you know Web essentials can't be installed on Express version, can we install ASP.NET and Web Tools on VS 2012 Express for Web? It would be great if everyone get hands on cool new stuff. @Mads, can you please add Coffee script, SCSS, TypeScript etc templates so they appear in "New File dialog"?

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Does Web Essentials 2012 work with WebMatrix 3? if so how do we install the extension.

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