

The best part is that you can plug in custom libraries. The regular compilation flag in web.config controls it and you can certainly override with the BundleTable.EnableOptmizations property if you have specific needs. In RC it's nice and simple: you can change with a params array: "~/Content/css")Īlso, bundles aren't bundled when you're in debug mode but are when released without you having to change your markup. Rendering bundles in Beta required some goofy syntax and a lot of repetitive namespaces. The API has been simplified and is slightly more fluent which means it's easier to read and easier to write. vb) where you have total control, but everything just works out of the box.

There wasn't enough control over what was bundled and in what order in the beta, so that's been moved into a BundleConfig.cs (or. There's been some significant changes to the web optimization (minification and bundling) framework since beta. Here's some of my favorite new features from the "Angle Brackets Team." That's my name for the Web Platform and Tools team. (It's 2012, so 11 make less sense than 2010+2) There's a lot of nice improvements for Web Development in this release candidate as we march towards a final release. Today Visual Studio 2012 RC (Release Candidate) came out.
