Web Essentials, Visual Studio 2012 Compile Errors

[taitems]

Hey guys, I seem to remember coming across this issue before but cannot find the bug anywhere! Essentially lesshat has always been at odds with Visual Studio, and simply won't compile. The fix in the past has generally been to remove lesshat and put elements.less in, instead. Obviously that's not without drawbacks.

I seem to remember a comment stating that the version of the LESS engine that Web Essentials uses does not support inline JavaScript, eg:

@process: ~`(function(value){return value=value||"stretch"})((function(){var args="@{arguments}";return args=args.replace(/^\[|\]$/g,"")})())`;

But I can't get any meaningful errors out.

Thought I'd put this here as I'm at the end of my tether!

[custa1200]

I am also having issues with this. I would have assumed Web essentials to allow Javascript to be executed as part of the compiling as per LESS's instructions http://www.lesscss.org/#-javascript-evaluation

[petrbrzek]

This is a conversation from twitter https://twitter.com/mkristensen/status/429092520014790656
Mads Kristensen is a Microsoft developer. So, hopefully it might be fixed in the next WE version.

[mihail64]

In Web Essentials 2013 everything ok

[eossipov]

This is free to download, and I believe it may solve your compilation issues, if not, let me know.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2b96d16a-c986-4501-8f97-8008f9db141a