using System.Web.Optimization can I mix css and .less files in the same bundle?

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It does not look like this is possible because LessTransform will be applied only once all the files have been merged and minified.

public class LessTransform : IBundleTransform
{
    public void Process(BundleContext context, BundleResponse response)
    {
        response.Content = LessWeb.Parse(response.Content, (DotlessConfiguration) ConfigurationManager.GetSection("dotless"));
        response.ContentType = "text/css";
    }
}

Is there a way to preprocess the less files in some way at Bundling time?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '13 at 21:22

I recently had the same needs and wrote a blog post about the solution that I finally came up with. Here

This can be done relatively easy with a nuget package/some web.config changes (detailed after the package installs so excluding here)/a new transformer in your bundling config.

using System.Web.Optimization can I mix css and .less files in the same bundle?

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