Question

I am new to MVC so thought I would start a new project and try out some of the new features in MVC4. I have two css files in my Content directory, normalise_mini and site.css. When I use the following code:

<link href="@System.Web.Optimization.BundleTable.Bundles.ResolveBundleUrl("~/Content/css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

It only takes my site.css file not my normalisation file. I have the following in my app start:

protected void Application_Start()
{

    // Remove all other view engines except razor:
    ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
    ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new RazorViewEngine());

    AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

    RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

    BundleTable.Bundles.RegisterTemplateBundles();
    BundleTable.Bundles.EnableDefaultBundles();
}

Do I need to create a bundle for each css file (as this person is doing)? Or should it just find all the css files automatically (which I would expect to be the default behaviour). It might be worth noting that I started this project as a Empty Website based on Razor view engine (which actually wasn’t empty at all :/)

Thanks in advance

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Update

According to the link posted, I need to comment out the line that registers the template bundles. Eg:

protected void Application_Start()
{

    // Remove all other view engines except razor:
    ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
    ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new RazorViewEngine());

    AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

    RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

    //BundleTable.Bundles.RegisterTemplateBundles();  // This is not needed
    BundleTable.Bundles.EnableDefaultBundles();
}

This now works. My thoughts are that the two lines should co-exist without any problems. I guess it’s by design, but is it bad design?

Answer 1

Someone else has already answered this question:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1776599.aspx/1?MVC+4+0+Bundling+Minification+not+working+

UPDATE:

Someone has expressed concern that a link may not be enough to answer the question. Although I still believe that someone who visits this page should read the linked thread, the short answer is to remove the BundleTable.Bundles.RegisterTemplateBundles() line from Application_Start() and replace it with BundleTable.Bundles.EnableDefaultBundles()