Is it possible to stop Visual Studio 2008 from failing to build on CSS errors?

Question

I have an external stylesheet that has specific IE-hacks. Every so often my site will fail to build due to these hacks (it is the hash-hack; for example #margin-top:-2px;). This is the error:

Unexpected character sequence. Expected a property name for the "<property> : <value>" declaration

I haven't found out a concrete way to get the errors to stop, VS2008 just seems to stop caring after a while. I found this article, but I am unsure of how to edit the files properly so this "error" (since it is legal syntax) will not pop up again.

Answer 1

The easiest thing is to close the file in the editor and it should stop complaining.

Answer 2

I'm not sure about 2008, but in 2005 (IIRC), you can go to:

 Tools | Options | Text Editor | CSS | CSS Specific

and then untick Detect Errors

I remember having exactly the same problem on 100% valid CSS which MS didn't recognise (big shock), flicked this switch and forgot about the problem forever more.

Answer 3

Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML | Validation

Make sure 'Show Errors' 'As Warnings' is checked. There was a bug early on that even if it was checked, it wasn't acknowledged, in which case, uncheck it and save the settings, then go back and check it again.