How to disable Javascript/CSS minification in ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

Question

I am just trying out ASP.NET MVC 4 but I can\'t figure out how to disable Javascript/CSS minification feature. Especially for development environment this will help greatly

Answer 1

After the call to EnableDefaultBundles() in Global.asax, you can do this ...

        if ( ... running in development environment ...)
        {
            var registeredBundles = BundleTable.Bundles.GetRegisteredBundles();
            foreach (var bundle in registeredBundles)
            {
                if (bundle.Transform is System.Web.Optimization.JsMinify)
                    bundle.Transform = new NoTransform();
            }
        }

Not pretty (modifying state set by the system), but it's a lot less code than all the other suggestions, still lets you use the standard bundling behavior and it doesn't involve any changes to your views.