Hi,

First of all: great package. Great resource for learning razor etc.

We're using ClientDepedency 1.4 (why doesn't Umbraco use this version standard??) in our environment and that doesn't work out of the box with the supplied cdloader.cshtml. I managed to get it working so I thought I would share my solution here.

I'm not using the html5standardrenderer. The ClientDependency standardrenderer works ok for me. As far as I can see the only difference is the addition of type="text/css" in the output. (If that's not right, please explain in a reply)

In my solution I also implemented a third standard path for .less files. I added an extra parameter "LessPaths" to the CD Loader macro. It saves you from having to add /less/ for each file. As you can see in the code, the priority for the .less files is continued from the css files. Css file calls will be placed before less files in the html.

Here is the code:

@*
    This class will help you to load all scripts and stylesheets using ClientDependency
    Parameters:
    CssPaths (string) Pipe-separated css. The order how you put them is important
    LessPaths (string) Pipe-separated less. The order how you put them is important
    JsPaths (string) Pipe-separated js
    IncludeDefaultPaths (bool, default false) If true, it will prepend ~/css, ~/less and ~/scripts
*@
@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@using ClientDependency.Core
@using ClientDependency.Core.Controls
@{
    var cssPaths = Parameter.CssPaths;
    var lessPaths = Parameter.LessPaths;
    var jsPaths = Parameter.JsPaths;
    bool includeDefaultPaths;
    bool.TryParse(Parameter.IncludeDefaultPaths, out includeDefaultPaths);
    CdObjects cdPaths = GetClientDependencyPaths(cssPaths, lessPaths, jsPaths, includeDefaultPaths);
    @Html.Raw(cdPaths.Styles)
    @Html.Raw(cdPaths.Scripts)
}
@functions 
{
    CdObjects GetClientDependencyPaths(string cssPaths, string lessPaths, string jsPaths, bool includeDefaultPaths)
    {
        var paths = new HashSet<IClientDependencyPath>
        {
            new ClientDependencyPath {Name = "Styles", Path = "~/css"}, 
            new ClientDependencyPath {Name = "Less", Path = "~/less"}, 
            new ClientDependencyPath {Name = "Scripts", Path = "~/scripts"}
        };
        var allDependencies = new List<IClientDependencyFile>();
        string cssOutput, jsOutput;
        int priority = 0;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cssPaths))
        {
            allDependencies.AddRange(cssPaths.Split('|').Select(path => new CssInclude { PathNameAlias = includeDefaultPaths ? "Styles" : string.Empty, FilePath = path, Priority = priority++ }));
        }
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(lessPaths))
        {
            allDependencies.AddRange(lessPaths.Split('|').Select(path => new CssInclude { PathNameAlias = includeDefaultPaths ? "Less" : string.Empty, FilePath = path, Priority = priority++ }));
        }
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(jsPaths))
        {
            priority = 0;
            allDependencies.AddRange(jsPaths.Split('|').Select(path => new JsInclude { PathNameAlias = includeDefaultPaths ? "Scripts" : string.Empty, FilePath = path, Priority = priority++ }));
        }
        var renderer = new ClientDependency.Core.FileRegistration.Providers.StandardRenderer();
        renderer.RegisterDependencies(allDependencies, paths, out jsOutput, out cssOutput, Context);
        return new CdObjects { Styles = cssOutput, Scripts = jsOutput };
    }
    class CdObjects
    {
        public string Styles { get; set; }
        public string Scripts { get; set; }
    }
}

Remember this needs an extra parameter on the macro. See screenshot

Hope this helps someone. Comments? Errors? Please reply.