
That way, you see your individual files complete with white space and comments while developing, and reap the performance improvement in your live site. Allows you to configure the package so it only kicks in in release mode.That way, they continue to work even if CSS files from several different folders are combined. If a CSS file contains image urls that are relative to the folder containing the CSS file itself, those urls are fixed up by the package. Loading a single large file is often much quicker than loading a series of small files, because that saves the overhead involved in all the request and response messages. JSMIN is less efficient, but handles non-ASCII characters well.Ĭombines JavaScript files and CSS files.

Because the YUI minifier doesn't handle non-ASCII characters (such as Chinese), the package automatically uses the JSMIN algorithm for files containing such characters. The package uses the efficient YUI minifier to minify JavaScript and CSS files that are all in English (that is, contain only ASCII characters).
Visual studio minify javascript install#
If you just install the package and not do any further configuration, it only minifies and combines JavaScript and CSS files, and than only when the site is in Release mode. The features below can all be switched on and off individually via the web.config file ( full description). Downloadĭownload the package (free) from CodePlex, at. Step by step installation instructions are in the installation section. If you use IIS 6, you'll also need to update the configuration of IIS (no such update needed for IIS 7).

Installation is easy - just add a dll, update your web.config and add a small file.

The result can be a dramatic improvement in ASP.NET web site performance. The CombineAndMinify package discussed here automatically speeds up the loading of JavaScript files, CSS files and or images (loaded from image tags or from CSS files).
