How to turn on Visual Studio 2010 .css Intellisense on .less file

Question

Does anyone know how to enable css intellisense in a non .css file extension? I have a .less file that is basically a .css file but visual studio will not use .css intellis

Answer 1

Try using the CSS Is Less extension for VS2010:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/dd5635b0-3c70-484f-abcb-cbdcabaa9923

Forces .LESS files to open in the CSS editor, without having to change settings or adding HTML tags to your LESS file.