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By: Szymon Sasin

Szymon Sasin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:04:40 +0000

Hi,

instea creatning custom ViewEngine why not use existing facility?

public static class LessCssHelper { static LessCssHelper() { _fileFormats = new[] { "~/Content/Stylesheets/{0}.less", "~/Stylesheets/{0}.less" }; } public static string Generate(string fileName, bool minify) { var lessEngine = new EngineFactory(); lessEngine.Configuration.MinifyOutput = minify; var output = lessEngine .GetEngine() .TransformToCss(GetFile(fileName), null); return output; }


	private static string GetFile(string fileName)

	{

		var result = string.Empty;

		var pathProvider = HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider;
		foreach (var format in _fileFormats)

		{

			var nameWithExtension = String.Format(format, fileName);

			if (pathProvider.FileExists(nameWithExtension))

			{

				var file = pathProvider.GetFile(nameWithExtension);

				using (var stream = new StreamReader(file.Open()))

				{

					result += stream.ReadToEnd();

				}

				break;

			}

		}
		return result;

	}

private static string[] _fileFormats; }

All you have to do is to pass a file name requested.

Second thing is to keep a MC style ( so without .less extension)

Regards,
Szymon

By: Gustavo Machado

Gustavo Machado — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:11:22 +0000

This is brillant mate!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:16:20 +0000

Nice walkthrough and a clever approach, but like some of the other commenters I also think that involving the ViewEngine may be an unnecessary step. Returning a custom ActionResult is more in-line with the intended model in MVC.

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By: Schotime

Schotime — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:08:56 +0000

You are indeed correct about the extension method. That is a better way to do it.

I did see the variables you can pass into the query string. If I was to use that I think I would still run it through a controller as its easy to gather the resources needed to pass to the style sheet in the controller rather than in the master page using a action filter or something.

Is there a way to pass a list of key value pairs to the parser to be processed with the less file?

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By: tgmdbm

tgmdbm — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:10:03 +0000

Nice. To be more in keeping with MVC this would be better implemented as an ActionResult and an extension method on Controller. return Less(filename, model); also be aware that you can pass variables to the less parser by including them on the query string. you might not need to run it through the whole WebForms engine