Save LESS files as CSS with Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web

Question

Microsoft recently released Web Tools 2012.2. The release notes state that it supports

LESS editing and compiler support to enable building dynamic CSS using LESS.

but when I save a LESS file, it doesn't output a corresponding CSS file like it used to with Web Essentials. How do I get it to do that?

Answer 1

The problem is that the LESS Processor isn't supported in the free versions of Visual Studio. But there is a good LESS processor for free in Web Matrix (also free). Not a great solution, but it works.