ASP.NET Bundles how to disable minification

Question

Conditional compilation directives are your friend:

#if DEBUG
            var jsBundle = new Bundle("~/Scripts/js");
#else
            var jsBundle = new ScriptBundle("~/Scripts/js");
#endif

If you have debug="true" in web.config and are using Scripts/Styles.Render to reference the bundles in your pages, that should turn off both bundling and minification. BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false will always turn off both bundling and minification as well (irrespective of the debug true/false flag).

Are you perhaps not using the Scripts/Styles.Render helpers? If you are directly rendering references to the bundle via BundleTable.Bundles.ResolveBundleUrl() you will always get the minified/bundled content.

To disable bundling and minification just put this your .aspx file (this will disable optimization even if debug=true in web.config)

vb.net:

System.Web.Optimization.BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false

c#.net

System.Web.Optimization.BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false;

If you put EnableOptimizations = true this will bundle and minify even if debug=true in web.config

You can turn off minification in your bundles simply by Clearing your transforms.

var scriptBundle = new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/scriptBundle");
...
scriptBundle.Transforms.Clear();

I personally found this useful when wanting to bundle all my scripts in a single file but needed readability during debugging phases.

I tried a lot of these suggestions but noting seemed to work. I've wasted quite a few hours only to found out that this was my mistake:

@Scripts.Render("/bundles/foundation")

It always have me minified and bundled javascript, no matter what I tried. Instead, I should have used this:

@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/foundation")

The extra '~' did it. I've even removed it again in only one instance to see if that was really it. It was... hopefully I can save at least one person the hours I wasted on this.

Combine several answers, this works for me in ASP.NET MVC 4.

        bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/Scripts/Common/js")
            .Include("~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.3.js")
            .Include("~/Scripts/zizhujy.com.js")
            .Include("~/Scripts/Globalize.js")
            .Include("~/Scripts/common.js")
            .Include("~/Scripts/requireLite/requireLite.js"));

        bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/appLayoutStyles")
            .Include("~/Content/AppLayout.css"));

        bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/css/App/FunGrapherStyles")
            .Include("~/Content/css/Apps/FunGrapher.css")
            .Include("~/Content/css/tables.css"));

#if DEBUG
        foreach (var bundle in BundleTable.Bundles)
        {
            bundle.Transforms.Clear();
        }
#endif