VS publish vs dotless

Question

When Visual Studio publish feature is used, it does not publish the css files created by dotless.

E.g. I have a less style sheet named Site.less and upon build it will create Site.css. However as the Style.css file is not included in the project it will not get published.

Appreciate any ideas.

You could use the httphandler. That would JIT the less. You could look into T4 transforms for less. — Aron, Sep 11 '13 at 17:42
Solved http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2747081/how-do-you-include-additional-files-using-vs2010-web-deployment-packages — Ajay, Sep 11 '13 at 18:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '13 at 17:45

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Found it...http://haacked.com/archive/2009/12/01/t4-template-for-less-css.aspx

Add this template to you project. It will compile on change rather than on build.

answered Sep 11 '13 at 17:45

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Idea sounds good but I have another problem. I am using TFS and I dont want the generated css to be added to TFS. – Ajay Sep 11 '13 at 18:34
Then don't check it in. – Aron Sep 11 '13 at 18:35
I don't want to be worried about that. Any other ideas? – Ajay Sep 11 '13 at 18:38
Solved http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2747081/how-do-you-include-additional-files-using-vs2010-web-deployment-packages – Ajay Sep 11 '13 at 18:58

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