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

After fighting against this issue for several hours, I recommend that you try this as well:

1. Add this at the very beginning of the view you are using your bundle:

   @{ BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true; }

2. Reset IIS

3. Reload your page and check if minify works

In my case somewhere in my solution was changing "BundleTable.EnableOptimizations" from true to false. When I force that to TRUE right before the bundle is used, I got this working.

After I noticed it works, I moved that into a static method at my BundleConfig class:

public static void EnableOptimizations()
{
    #if DEBUG
        BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false;
    #else
        BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;
    #endif
}

So I can call it from the view and have it minify disabled for developers

@{
    BundleConfig.EnableOptimizations();
}