Further to the above, I've noticed that previously OK razor files are now complaining about:-

":" is not valid at the start of a code block. Only identifiers, keywords, comments, "(" and "{" are valid. in both Visual Studio and in the Umbraco Edit Script File interface.

This site has run for months, it appears this upgrade has disturbed parsing of Razor files.  Any clues to how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Craig

Am I the only one this has happened to then?  If someone could help be fault find it, maybe I can get it working and let others know too.

Craig

So, I had to re-install windows and rebuild my dev machine.  Same issue as before. Web Matrix 2 says it wants to upgrade my site to work on .net 2 (it's a .net 4 site anyway as it's Umbraco 4.7.2), now most macros won't run. 

If I open the site in VS2010 and attempt a build, it croaks on the following macro with this error:

":" is not valid at the start of a code block.  Only identifiers, keywords, comments, "(" and "{" are valid. 

@{
  //Check there are slider image pages loaded
  var theCount = @Model.Descendants("SliderImagePage").Count();
  if (theCount > 0) 
  {
        foreach (var theImagePage in Model.Descendants("SliderImagePage")) 
{
           var theImage = theImagePage.Media("sliderImage","umbracoFile");
           if (theImagePage.IsFirst()) 
   {
            @: <div class="slide" style="background-image:url('@Html.Raw(theImage)');display:block;"></div>
            }
     else
    {
            @: <div class="slide" style="background-image:url('@Html.Raw(theImage)');display:none;"></div>
            }
          }    
     }
 else
 {
   @: No Picture Image pages set up
  }  
}

This is exactly the same code that is running on the live server and Umbraco itself has no problems with. However, I need to work on it locally so it must build and display ok. 

Is it an issue with WebMatrix/VS2010 or is there a fault with the syntax. Look ok to me.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Craig

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