Any script/stylesheet compressors for ASP.NET without MVC or something similar?

Question

I am trying to find a nice solution to concatenate and compress javascript and css in my webpage to improve YSlow performance. The website is built using ASP.NET in both VB and C#. I seen some cool tools, like Cassette and Chirpy, but they both seem to need some aspect of the MVC framework that I don't have. Any ideas?

So far the best I've found is a version of Chirpy that will do compression and whatnot inside visual studio, which is cool, but not as automated as I would like.

Answer 1

SquishIt is fairly useful and simple to setup.

It uses YUI Compressor and can minify CSS/Javascript.

Answer 2

I use YUI Compressor. Its nice because every time you build your project it will automatically minify it for you. Lots of good tutorials out there for it as well. I used this page to figure out how to configure my .xml file. Link

Answer 3

We used FrogMSBuild to combine files and MS Ajax Minifier to minify the resulting files. See my short summary on how to set them up in a web project.

Answer 4

Check if Microsoft Ajax Minifier would fit your needs. Do you need a dynamic/runtime or static/compile time minifier?

Here is the snippet from the project build file.

  <!-- Ajax Minifier -->
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\MicrosoftAjax\ajaxmin.tasks" />
  <Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <ItemGroup>
      <JS Include="**\*.js" Exclude="**\extJS\**;**\extJS_extensions\**" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <AjaxMin JsSourceFiles="@(JS)" JsSourceExtensionPattern="\.js$" JsTargetExtension=".js" />
  </Target>