Bundling and Minifications in ASP.NET

Bundling:

It's a logical group of files referenced by a unique name with a HTTP request. We can create a bundle for StyleSheet (CSS) and Javascript files.

Minification means removing unwanted white space, line break from the code.

You can Google it with these keywords:

  • online minification css
  • online minification js

You will see so many online minifier sites to do minification jobs freely.

config

In above image you see inside App_Start folder there is BUNDLECONFIG.CS
file.

Before bundling technique we mention individual CSS / JS file link in our page which means that numbers of HTTPRequest. One budling is equal to one HttpRquest request, thats why bundling improves our applicaiton performance.

Bundle Registration:

Basically all bundles are registered with GLOBAL.ASAX file.

code

How to Enable / Disable Bundling and Minification?

In Web.Config file.

  1. <system.web>  
  2.     <compilation debug="true" />  
  3. </system.web>  
In Global.Asax.Cs
  1. protected void Application_Start()  
  2. {  
  3.     //Enable  
  4.     System.Web.Optimization.BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = True;  
  5.   
  6.     //Disable  
  7.     System.Web.Optimization.BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false;  
  8. }  
Default Bundling
  1. bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/css").Include("~/Content/site.css"));  
  2.   
  3. bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jquery").Include( "~/Scripts/jquery-{version}.js"));  
How to use bundling in Layout or view file?
  1. @Styles.Render("~/Content/css")   
  2. @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")  

 

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