Bundling not working in MVC5 when I turn on release mode

Question

I have the following bundle configured in BundleConfig.cs:

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle(\"~/bundles/css\").Include(
                      \"~/assets/bootstrap         


        

Answer 1

The default Release Web.config transform removes the debug attribute like so:

However, this will not cause the expected bundling behavior to occur. Instead, you must create a transform that literally sets the debug attribute to "false", like so: