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Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers

by Abhijit JanaOctober 12, 2011October 17, 2011 11 Comments

Visual Studio 2011 developer preview introduced many great features. These includes IDE features such as HTML Editor Enhancements, Debugging features, parallel computing improvements, SharePoint development features etc. You can read the Announcing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview post from Jason Zander’s WebLog to know more about the newly launched Visual Studio. In this post I am going talk few of nice features of Visual Studio 2011 developer preview related with ASP.NET.

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5

by Abhijit JanaOctober 6, 2011October 10, 2011 25 Comments

Optimizing application performance is a key element for business. There are several ways by which we can optimize the applications performance. It can be done either by server side code optimization, caching or some client side optimization. In this post I am going to discuss about one handy and smart way to optimize web applications performance using Bundling and Minification features which is introduced with ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview. ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview introduced bundling, which combines multiple JavaScript files for faster loading with less number of requests for download and minification, which reduces the size of JavaScript and CSS files by removing unneeded characters . Combination of these bundling and minification helps web pages to load very faster. Let’s have a looks how it works.

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