Question

I installed Chirpy under VS 2010 SP1, created a small all.chirp.config and saved it.

The Output windows displays the line:

ConfigEngine — C:\Users\me\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\MyPrj\Website\Content\all.chirp.config

over and over and over, while my CPU gets pegged…

The config file contains:

<root>
  <FileGroup Name="system.css">
    <File Path="Fonts/all.css" />
    <File Path="Google.Prettify.css" />
  </FileGroup>

  <FileGroup Name="MyPrj.css">
    <File Path="site.css" />
    <Folder Path="MyPrj" Pattern="*.css" />
  </FileGroup>

  <FileGroup Name="system.js">
    <File Path="../Scripts/browserDetect.js" />
  </FileGroup>
  <FileGroup Name="MyPrj.js">
    <Folder Path="../Scripts/MyPrj" Pattern="*.js" />
  </FileGroup>
</root>

where the first folder (with the *.css) contains 6 files and the second (with the *.js) contains 14 files. should be no big deal…

Note: I get the error: The 'root' element is not declared from the tool

Answer 1

I figured this out. The path attribute is not valid on a folder element. You need to change the Folder to be:

<Folder Pattern="../Scripts/MyPrj/*.js" />

Otherwise your just telling chirpy to process all js files in your root directory and end up get stuck in an infinite loop trying to minify your output.

Also just a FYI I found the folder node supports the Deep attribute. Setting this to false, ensures it does not look in any subdirectories.