Setting Visual Studio to automatically minifying using Ajax Minifier

Question

I use VS 2010 I would like at the pressing of Build Button have all CSS and .JS files minified.

Following this article all is working great for JS... adding

Answer 1

On my project file I used "UsingTask" instead of "Import" and it's working:

<UsingTask TaskName="AjaxMin" AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\..\packages\AjaxMin.5.14.5506.26202\tools\net40\AjaxMinTask.dll" />
	<Target Name="AfterBuild">
		<ItemGroup>
			<JS Include="**\*.js" Exclude="**\*.min.js;Scripts\*.js" />
		</ItemGroup>
		<ItemGroup>
			<CSS Include="**\*.css" Exclude="**\*.min.css" />
		</ItemGroup>
		<AjaxMin
			JsSourceFiles="@(JS)"  JsSourceExtensionPattern="\.js$" JsTargetExtension=".min.js"
			CssSourceFiles="@(CSS)" CssSourceExtensionPattern="\.css$" CssTargetExtension=".min.css"  />
	</Target>

Answer 2

I found out the solution to my problem, more resource here

Unable to run Ajax Minifier as post-build in Visual Studio

http://ajaxmin.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=AjaxMinTask

Also very interesting: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/81317/Automatically-compress-embedded-JavaScript-resourc.aspx?msg=3802401&display=Mobile

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\MicrosoftAjax\ajaxmin.tasks" />
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
    <ItemGroup>
        <JS Include="**\*.js" Exclude="**\*.min.js;Scripts\*.js" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <CSS Include="**\*.css" Exclude="**\*.min.css" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <AjaxMin
        JsSourceFiles="@(JS)"  JsSourceExtensionPattern="\.js$" JsTargetExtension=".min.js"
        CssSourceFiles="@(CSS)" CssSourceExtensionPattern="\.css$" CssTargetExtension=".min.css"  />
</Target>