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How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package

February 24, 2011 Feb 24, 2011 02/24/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish. This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension points, as we’ve blogged about...

Web Packaging: Installing Web Packages using Command Line

March 16, 2009 Mar 16, 2009 03/16/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Today I want to advance our discussions around Web Deployment in Visual Studio 10…  To catch up on the previous discussions in this series check out: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild How does Web Deployment with VS 10 &...

Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild

February 24, 2009 Feb 24, 2009 02/24/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This post is next in the series of VS 2010 articles that we have been putting together to dive into the Web Deployment improvements with VS 2010 and IIS.  I would recommend reading the the preceding posts to get an overview of all the scenarios supported: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package ...

Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010

February 8, 2009 Feb 8, 2009 02/8/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In the earlier post I highlighted various investments that we are making in Visual Studio 2010 and IIS to make Web Deployment easier.  You can read that post below: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Deploying a web project with all its correct dependencies is not a trivial task. Some of the assets which need to be considered ...

Anti-virus programs can affect VS build performance

June 16, 2008 Jun 16, 2008 06/16/08
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus programs affect VS build? Please take a look at the following snippet from ScottGu's blog...