Visual Studio Bundler & Minifier Context Menu Not Working

Question

I've installed Bundler & Minifier v 2.4.337 to my website project in Visual Studio 2015. But, when I right-click a *.js file the context menu option to Minify File is not present. I've used B&M before in other projects successfully. Something about this version just isn't working for me. Any ideas how to get the context menu options to appear?

Answer 1

I had the same issue with visual studio 2017, fixed it by going to Tools --> Extensions and updates. On installed tab, look for Bundler and Minifier extension and enable it. For some reason it was disabled after installing the IDE and Web essentials.