MVC4 StyleBundle: Can you add a cache-busting query string in Debug mode?

Question

I\'ve got an MVC application and I\'m using the StyleBundle class for rendering out CSS files like this:

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle(\"~/bundles         


        

Answer 1

This library can add the cache-busting hash to your bundle files in debug mode, as well as a few other cache-busting things: https://github.com/kemmis/System.Web.Optimization.HashCache

You can apply HashCache to all bundles in a BundlesCollection

Execute the ApplyHashCache() extension method on the BundlesCollection Instance after all bundles have been added to the collection.

BundleTable.Bundles.ApplyHashCache();

Or you can apply HashCache to a single Bundle

Create an instance of the HashCacheTransform and add it to the bundle instance you want to apply HashCache to.

var myBundle = new ScriptBundle("~/bundle_virtual_path").Include("~/scripts/jsfile.js");
myBundle.Transforms.Add(new HashCacheTransform());