madskristensen
When saving transpiled CSS to a different directory using comments to set the transpiler directives, Visual Studio 2017 shows strange folders
When saving transpiled CSS to a different directory using comments to set the transpiler directives, Visual Studio 2017 shows strange folders.
Comment
// lessc "../../../content/themes/ipswich/css/site.css"
These are the errors I get:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Warning The file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.css' could not be added to the project. The specified path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside of the project directory. Wiki Warning The file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.css' could not be added to the project. The specified path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside of the project directory. Wiki Warning The parent file, 'site.css', for file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.min.css' cannot be found in the project file. Wiki Warning The file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.min.css' could not be added to the project. The specified path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside of the project directory. Wiki Warning The file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.min.css' could not be added to the project. The specified path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside of the project directory. Wiki Warning The file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.min.css' could not be added to the project. The specified path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside of the project directory. Wiki Warning The file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.css' could not be added to the project. The specified path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside of the project directory. Wiki Warning The parent file, 'site.css', for file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.min.css' cannot be found in the project file. Wiki Warning The parent file, 'site.css', for file 'Themes\Ipswich\Less......\content\themes\ipswich\css\site.min.css' cannot be found in the project file. Wiki
I also did this, then I tried to delete the folder from Visual Studio. Which led to a less than ideal situation where most of my project files were deleted, leading me to lose a couple of hours work.
The problem is *.csproj in visual studio is updated with new paths:
+ <Content Include="LESS\..\css\app.css" />
+ <Content Include="LESS\..\css\app.min.css">
+ <DependentUpon>app.css</DependentUpon>
+ </Content>
My solution was not to use relative paths
// lessc "../css/app.css"
Use absolute path
// lessc "/css/app.css"
@kgjersda I gave up with it in the end and started using gulp instead.
@Matthew-Bonner I tried to use an absolute path, too: the generated file was inside c:\css\styles.css.
