Sass failing to compile - Web Essentials 2013 Update 4

Question

I\'m currently using Web Essentials 2013 update 4 to provide support for compiling .scss files in Visual Studio.

The tool has worked fine for me in the past however

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, after installing Web Essentials 2013 Update 4 the .scss files started throwing errors like this to the output:

Something went wrong reaching: ... 
SCSS: Site.scss compilation failed: The service failed to respond to this request
Possible cause: Syntax Error!

The only solution for me was this:

1. Uninstall Web Essentials
2. Delete %AppData%\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
3. Delete %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
4. Repair VS 2013.4
5. Reinstall Web Essentials

Source: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/56633663-6799-41d7-9df7-0f2a504ca361/view/Discussions/1#15143

And a heads-up: If you import other .scss files, make sure they are in the correct location. When I updated Twitter.Bootstrap.Sass 3.3.3 via NuGet, the related .scss files were moved to a different folder and I had to update references. For example:

Before:

@import "../sass/bootstrap/_utilities.scss";

After:

@import "../stylesheets/bootstrap/_utilities.scss";