How to add bundling and minification to an ASP.NET MVC project?

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I have just upgraded an ASP.NET MVC 3 project to MVC 4, and am now trying to add bundling and minification facilities to it. So far I have installed Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework via NuGet and added System.Web.Optimization among the Razor namespaces in Web.config:

<system.web>
  ...
  <pages>
    <namespaces>
      ...
      <add namespace="System.Web.Optimization" />
      ...
    </namespaces>
  </pages>
  ...
</system.web>

However, @Styles and @Scripts are still not directly accessible in my Razor views (*.cshtml), I am forced to prefix them with the System.Web.Optimization namespace. Any clues as to what I'm missing?

Jonathan Sayce · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-05 11:37:40Z

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In which web.config did you add the namespace? There is one in the views folder and another in the root of project. You have to add the namespace in both.

edited Jul 5, 2013 at 11:37

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answered Aug 13, 2012 at 15:48

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4 Comments

aknuds1 Over a year ago

Ah, that could well be it. I only added modified the root one. Will try your suggestion tomorrow.

vfabre Over a year ago

Ok. Good look. Don't forget restart the Visual Studio if that don't work successfully

amirhosseinab Over a year ago

@vfabre why I must restart the Visual Studio after adding namespace to web.config?

vfabre Over a year ago

@amirhosseinab I don't know why exactly, but sometimes they don't recognize the new namespaces.

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