Visual Studio 2012 and Web Essentials 2012 crashes on builds

Question

I've installed Web Essentials 2.5.1 and typescript 0.8.3; however, now Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate immediately crashes upon builds. The crashes stop if I uninstall Web Essentials. Does anyone have any suggestions to remedy the crashes? Thanks.

Answer 1

It could be the error we just encountered when pulling in Wordpress/PHP project. If BOTH the .css and .less files are Include in project, the build will crash. If this happens

1. Right-click the .css file and Exclude from project
2. Delete the .css file from Explorer
3. Save the project
4. Double click the .less file to open in an editor
5. Change something and save the .less file.
6. Save the project

At this point the .css file and .min.css files will be generated and added to the project as dependent files like they would have been in a normal project.

If you're looking at the project's .csproj file, it goes from looking like this:

<ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="test.less" />
    <Content Include="test.css" />
</ItemGroup>

to this:

<ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="test.less" />
    <Content Include="test.css">
        <DependentUpon>test.less</DependentUpon>
    </Content>
    <Content Include="test.min.css">
        <DependentUpon>test.less</DependentUpon>
    </Content>
</ItemGroup>