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JavaScript and CSS Minification and Optimization with Visual Studio and YUI Compressor

About a year and a half ago I got very interested in JavaScript optimization. This interest was born after playing with YSlow for Firebug (Firefox). I noticed that my customer’s homepage was requiring my browser to download 2 megabytes of Images, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Having gotten my start in the days of modems I [...]

T4 templates Intellisense support in Visual Studio 2010

A couple years ago I started using T4 templates in my Visual Studio projects. They provided me with a quick and efficient way to generate source files (C# and SQL in my case) based on the application’s database schema. T4 is also extremely useful for generating code for ASP.NET MVC (more information below). The problem [...]