LESS syntax highlighting and intellisense stopped working in VS2012

Question

I'm running Visual Studio 2012.3 update.

Today when I started IDE and opened a LESS file, syntax highlighting didn't work. Nor did intellisense while editing it.

It seems that Web Essentials is working as CSS preview pane is displayed and code in it is syntax highlighted. And I can also set Web Essentials' properties in Options and they do apply.

What's wrong? Anybody experiencing the same issue?

Answer 1

LESS was moved into the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 which you can read about and download here: http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/aspnet-45/aspnet-and-web-tools-20122-release-notes

It is unclear why Web Essentials continues to say it features LESS. The changelog states that the LESS editor was dropped in 2.5. This is the only place that I could find that mentions the move: http://madskristensen.net/post/Web-Tools-20122-and-Web-Essentials.aspx