Open a file in Visual Studio's CSS Source Editor

Question

I am using Phil Haack\'s T4CSS T4 template based on .less

One bad thing about Phil\'s solution is that visual studio opens the .less files as plain text files rather

Answer 1

If you are using the dotless.Compiler.exe tool (as opposed to the http handler), there is nothing to say your files have to end with .less. I name my suffix my .less files with .css so that Visual Studio treats them like css files. E.g. my naming convention is:

/css/common.less.css ==> /css/common.css

I run the dotLess compiler as a post-build event, e.g.

$(SolutionDir)\packages\dotless.1.1.0\Tools\dotless.Compiler.exe "$(ProjectDir)\css\common.less.css" "$(ProjectDir)\css\common.css"