ASP.NET Bundles how to disable minification

Question

I have debug="true" in both my web.config(s), and I just don't want my bundles minified, but nothing I do seems to disable it. I've tried enableoptimisations=false, here is my code:

//Javascript
bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/MainJS")
            .Include("~/Scripts/regular/lib/mvc/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js*")
            .Include("~/Scripts/regular/lib/mvc/jquery.validate*")
            .Include("~/Scripts/regular/lib/bootstrap.js")
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Scripts/regular/modules", "*.js", true)
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Scripts/regular/pages", "*.js", true)
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Scripts/regular/misc", "*.js", true));

//CSS
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/bundles/MainCSS")
            .Include("~/Content/css/regular/lib/bootstrap.css*")
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Content/css/regular/modules", "*.css", true)
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Content/css/regular/pages", "*.css", true))

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Search for EnableOptimizations keyword in your project

So if you find

BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;

turn it false.