Adding intillisence to .LESS files

Question

Hi All,

I am working to add custom intillisence (set of custom values stored in text file) in .LESS files. Visual studio 2010 does not provide intilisence for .LESS files.

Kindly share the approach, like

1. Which template needs to be taken in extensibility and

2. Other pointers required to accomplish the task.

Thanks,

Prashant

Answer 1

Hello Prashant,

I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hi Prashant,
You can try to use Chirpy
for our LESS support (as well as our google closure compiler support). It allows you to configure file extensions for LESS, such as .less.css, and then you can have Intellisense support.
more information : Chirpy - VS Add In For Handling Js, Css, DotLess, and T4 Files  http://chirpy.codeplex.com/  

You also can see whether the answer in this reply is helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5826062/intellisense-on-less-files
Quote:
Looks like the StaticFileHandler is what I was looking for. This is how we ended up adding it to our httpHandlers node in web.config:
<add verb="*" path="*.less.css" validate="false" type="dotless.Core.LessCssHttpHandler, dotless.Core, Version=1.1.0.7, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96B446C9E63EAE34, processorArchitecture=MSIL" />
<add verb="*" path="*.css" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />

 

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Lucy Liu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 3

Ok..So I had already added CSS intillisence in Less files using extensibility in VS2010.

DOT LESS files contains variables, Now I want to add those variables to intillisence window, and we keep on adding the variables in the LESS files so it should always be dynamic.

Answer 4

OK...I found the solution......

Implemented ICompletionSource interface to customize the intellisense as per my project requirement.

Below article is working exactly what I was looking.

           http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee372314.aspx