>>I have VS 2012 installed on this laptop and only have about 9GB of free space on the C: drive. So I am limited to what I can add to this laptop (like VS 2013 with Web Essentials which would be nice). While I do development on VS 2012 the DOTLESS converts the LESS file to CSS, dynamically. Now I am starting to test this project on a DiscountAsp.net site (I purchased just for testing). Since I don't know how to make the public site "understand" the LESS type file, I would like to convert the LESS file into the .CSS and then copy the .CSS to the public site.
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>>What stand-alone tool you recommend to convert LESS to CSS?
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>Since the web server appears to be IIS/ASP.NET the dynamic compile should work if you have web.config set up correctly ? (http://www.dotlesscss.org/)
>But I see at least two compilers :
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>http://www.dopefly.com/less-converter/less-converter.html (online so may be more work)
>or
>http://wearekiss.com/simpless
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>Disclaimer : Haven't tried either.......

In theory the dotless dynamic compile should work; I agree. But I have had some issues in the development mode. So I thought that it would be simpler to compile the .less to .css and then deploy it to the site. I will check out the links for the compilers in your message.
Thank you for your help!