title: Visual studio (2008) integration - intellisense and colourizer
body: <p>So I'm now about to look at getting visual studio integration working for our port of the Less ruby library: <a href="http://www.dotlesscss.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.dotlesscss.com</a>. This is basically a CSS preprocessor that extends on the CSS language to give you variables, mixins, nested rules etc...</p>
  
  <p>What we want is to have our .Less file type take advantage of VS's intelligence and syntax highlighting. Now as the Less language is pretty much CSS with a few extra niceties, it would seem sensible to extend on the existing VS support for CSS files. </p>
  
  <p>We have started to look at VS SDK and managed to get as far as colouring all text blue (its a start). But before we start looking at the Lexer impl I really want to know if we can somehow extend whats already been done with CSS support. </p>
  
  <p>Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. </p>
  
  <p>Chris. </p>