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Can I get Visual Studio to provide Intellisense and syntax coloring for Less Css?

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I am experimenting with Less Css, and I am using Visual Studio 2010.

It would be nice if the editor provided support for syntax highlighting and Intellisense for Less, for instance coloring and suggesting variables. What are my options to get that to work ? Do I need to write a plugin for it, or how would one go about adding this to VS ? Does anything exist for this already ?

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driis Avatar asked May 02 '10 16:05

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If you are using Visual Studio 2012 you can use Web Essentials 2012. It uses syntax highlighting similar to Visual Studio's CSS syntax highlighter. It compiles to CSS on save.

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Update

  • 2.4-2.5 Less syntax highlighting was disabled
  • As of 2.6 Less syntax highlighting was turned back on
  • As of 3.8 Less syntax highlighting is disabled for VS2012.
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FarFigNewton Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 00:09

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http://www.mindscapehq.com/products/web-workbench

Update (07 Mar 2012)

After a week or so of using this, I have uninstalled it due to:

  1. Annoying nagging adverts telling you to upgrade
  2. A weird bug that stopped me being able to save my .less files intermittently
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Chris Haines Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 00:09

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