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Hello, I, along with several other developers on my team, are having issues with Web Workbench not working at all after a clean install. We mainly use it as a coffeescript compiler and have had to resort to command-line utilities for that functionality for the time being which is rather frustrating. I have version 3.2.528.21592 installed with Visual Studio 2010. I have re-installed Web Workbench many times and have had no success. A few times coffeescript compilation would work for the first few files I edited and then stop after an arbitrary amount of time, other installs would yield no coffee compilation whatsoever. The Mindscape dropdown menu options in Visual Studio are "Activate Web Workbench" and "Guide to Working with Compass", no settings. Relevant options in Tools > Options... > Web Workbench CoffeeScript
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Sorry to hear that you are encountering this issue - are you only experiencing this on Coffee files or on Sass and Less files as well? One quick test of this is to create a Sass file via the Add new item context menu and then save it to trigger compilation. If it does not produce any .css files then this may indicate that something is conflicting with WW. Along a similar line, what other extensions or addins do you have installed? Do you have Web Essentials or JSLint installed? Lastly can you check if there is any output in the Output window after you save a file.
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Count me in as another person for whom CS generation is unreliable. I'm also running VS2010 with the latest Web Workbench and CS generation typically does not work for me. Just for kicks though I just uninstalled the extension and then reinstalled and lo and behold it started working again. Then I closed & reopened VS and it stopped working again. There's nothing in the Output window related to Web Workbench, are there any other log files I can check? Thanks guys. |
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Hi David, this definitely sounds like an extension conflict then as we have seen this type of behaviour before when the random ordering VS takes to loading extensions causes a conflict some of the time and other times not. And typically it will work first time after an install. Can you let me know what other extensions you have installed please?
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sass appears to be the only file that generates properly. If I create a new Sass file it creates a nested css file, however less and coffee files do not create their css and js files respectively. There is no Mindscape related output in the Output Window, the only options in the dropdown are General and TFS. My other extensions are:
One other extension I have installed was created internally by a member of the company for code searching purposes. One way I was able to temporarily fix the issue was to go into Tools > Options... > Web Workbench and change Compilation > Disable CoffeeScript Compilation to True. Then go back and change it to False again. That temporarily caused coffee files to compile and generate javascript. However, after restarting Visual Studio it was back to not working and the same fix no longer worked. |
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Going off of Jeremy's extension question, I noticed that I too had CoffeeLite installed. I uninstalled it, and web workbench continued to work even after restarting VS 3 times. Here's hoping it stays working! I'd recommend disabling everything but Web Workbench, confirming that it works, and then re-enabling until it breaks. |
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I have also never been able to compile CoffeeScript files. I uninstalled CoffeeLite and it worked like a champ! Obviously they should play nice together, but for now uninstalling CoffeeLite will be fine. |
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Well look at that. CoffeeLite appears to be the culprit. I disabled it and Web Workbench started working. I think what happened in my case is I unwittingly still had Chirpy enabled after installing Web Workbench and must have installed CoffeeLite before disabling Chirpy leading to a long period of time during which Web Workbench didn't work for me. Thanks guys! |
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