Why isn't my Scripts.RenderSection working for jqGrid?

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2012 and MVC 4, and in my _Layout.cshtml, I have the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
        @Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryui")
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqgrid")

        @RenderSection("head", required: false)
    </head>
    <body>
        @RenderBody()

        @RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
    </body>
</html>

and in the BundleConfig.cs I have

public class BundleConfig
{
    public static void RegisterBundles(BundleCollection bundles)
    {
        bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jquery").Include(
            "~/Scripts/jquery-{version}.js"));

        bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqueryui").Include(
            "~/Scripts/jquery-ui-{version}.js"));

        bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqgrid").Include(
            "~/Scripts/jquery.jqGrid.min.js"));
    }
}

I've triple checked and my scripts folder does indeed contain jquery.jqGrid.min.js, but it's not being included.

My Html head looks like:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <link href="/Viper/Content/css" rel="stylesheet"/>

    <script src="/Viper/Scripts/jquery-1.8.1.js"></script>

    <script src="/Viper/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.23.js"></script>

</head>

Any ideas why this is not being added?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '12 at 20:05

7

The default behavior when debug=true is to ignore *.min.js(this is something we are looking at fixing).

For now, the easiest thing to do is would be to rename your file to be jquery.jqGrid.js

answered Sep 17 '12 at 20:05

Hao Kung

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Thank you. Yeah, this seems like a really strange feature that should be removed. – Scottie Sep 17 '12 at 20:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '14 at 08:59

If you change the bundle definition from:

bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqgrid").Include("~/Scripts/jquery.jqGrid.min.js"));

to:

bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqgrid").Include("~/Scripts/jquery.jqGrid.*"));

It will work like a harm.

So for debugging purpose jquery.jqGrid.src.js will be loaded while during running application in the release configuration jquery.jqGrid.min.js will be loaded.

Why isn't my Scripts.RenderSection working for jqGrid?

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