Microsoft and bundling

By using design-time bundling and minification, the minified files are created prior to the app's deployment. Bundling and minifying before deployment provides the advantage of reduced server load.

However, it's important to recognize that design-time bundling and minification increases build complexity and only works with static files. As a best practice, the bundled and minified files of your app should be used in a production environment. During development, the original files make for easier debugging of the app.

Specify which files to include in your pages by using the Environment Tag Helper in your views. The Environment Tag Helper only renders its contents when running in specific environments. The following environment tag renders the unprocessed CSS files when running in the Development environment:.

The following environment tag renders the bundled and minified CSS files when running in an environment other than Development. For example, running in Production or Staging triggers the rendering of these stylesheets:. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Bundle and minify static assets in ASP. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. The software is an extension to Visual Studio and Visual Studio and is not supported by Microsoft.

You can use Web Essentials if you have an existing feature with some branding elements that are referenced inside a custom master page, such as:. For example:. In addition, if the minify flag is set to true in the bundling recipe the files are reduced in size as well as bundled together. This means that new, minified versions of the JavaScript files were created that you can reference in your master page.

When you load a page from your web site, you can use the developer tools from your web browser, such as Internet Explorer 11, to see the number of requests sent to the server and how long each file took to load. After bundling the CSS and JavaScript files together, the number of requests dropped to 74 and each file took only slightly longer than the original files to download individually:.

Similar to how you bundle JavaScript and CSS files, you can combine many small icons and other common images into a larger sprite sheet and then use CSS to reveal the individual images. Instead of downloading each individual image, the user's web browser downloads the sprite sheet once and then caches it on the local computer. This improves page load performance by cutting down on the number of downloads and round trips to the web server. OneDrive is pushed wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows This makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services.

Behavior like this is at the core of this growth of the tech giants and has to be stopped. As to what the group demands, it wants no "gate-keeping," which it defines as the bundling or preinstallation of Microsoft services on Windows or associated efforts to "push" services that disrupt an otherwise even playing field.

It also wants "open standards and interoperability" so migrations are easy for consumers. Though there is a lack of clarity on that last demand, one can imagine it's aligned with common complaints lobbed at Microsoft in the past, such as Slack arguing that Teams' and Office's integrations made it harder for Slack to have a fair shot at attracting consumers in the same capacity as Microsoft's services. As usual, Microsoft's business practices are making enemies.

What you need to know A coalition of companies has formed to urge the EU to keep Microsoft in check and prevent it from bundling software such as Teams and OneDrive with Windows.