How to add bundling and minification to an ASP.NET MVC project?

Question

I have just upgraded an ASP.NET MVC 3 project to MVC 4, and am now trying to add bundling and minification facilities to it. So far I have installed Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework via NuGet and added System.Web.Optimization among the Razor namespaces in Web.config:

<system.web>
  ...
  <pages>
    <namespaces>
      ...
      <add namespace="System.Web.Optimization" />
      ...
    </namespaces>
  </pages>
  ...
</system.web>

However, @Styles and @Scripts are still not directly accessible in my Razor views (*.cshtml), I am forced to prefix them with the System.Web.Optimization namespace. Any clues as to what I'm missing?

vfabre vfabre · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-13T15:48:36

In which web.config did you add the namespace? There is one in the views folder and another in the root of project. You have to add the namespace in both.

How to add bundling and minification to an ASP.NET MVC project?

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