microsoft-ajax-minifier

We use ajaxmin to create .min.js files from all our .js files. We have edited the .csproj file of the project and added following: <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\MicrosoftAjax\ajaxmin.tasks" /> <Target Name="AfterBuild"> <ItemGroup> <JS Include="**\*.js" Exclude="**\*.min.js" /> </ItemGroup> <AjaxMin JsSourceFiles="@(JS)" JsSourceExtensionPattern="\.js$" JsTargetExtension=".min.js" /> </Target> This works great when we build the site on our workstation and the .min.js files can be used in the site. When we check this project in this task runs also on the msbuild server

I'm currently migrating a project to Visual Studio 2010 and am trying to figure out how to minify JS and CSS files individually on build. In Visual Studio 2008 I used a Web Deployment Projects with a build task that referenced the C# port of the YUI Compressor . In Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects seem to have been integrated into the build process. Now there is this Microsoft AJAX Minifier in public beta and I'm more confused than ever. I found this blog post which makes the business with the Microsoft AJAX Minifier a non-starter because of CSS limitations. This shouldn't be

The Microsoft AJAX Minifier provides a build task which can be used in TFS or local build definitions. I have succsfully used this in both a local project file (building to seperate files) and in TFS build definitions (overwriting the existing JS files). I'd like to move to using Visual Studio 2010's 1-click publish feature rather than a TFS build definition, however adding the minification task as an AfterBuild target in the project file doesn't appear to effect the 1-click publish feature. Using information found in this thread and these articles , I tried creating a file named '[ProjectName