Hi,
I have a MVC app developed in VS2008.
When I run the app the changes I made to a JS file are not being updated.
Is this the browser problem (IE7) or VS2008 dev server problem??
If I use Firefox it is updated?
Malcolm
A:
I have the same problem. When I make changes to a JS file, my only solution is to to a full refresh (CTRL-F5) to see the JS changes. My guess is that the VS development server is not smart enough to handle static file caching.
I do not have this problem with a real IIS7 server on any browser.
Jarrett Meyer
2009-09-20 09:53:30
A:
Probably the browser. Here's the trick I use, (and StackOverflow uses). In your HTML files, put a version number in the query string for your JS files like so:
<link href="foo.js?version=somethingthatchanges" />
This will cause the browser to go back to the server each time you update your app to get a new JS file. You can either hard-code an increasing number here in the query string, or you can put in your .NET assembly version info there if you want.
Dave Markle
2009-09-20 10:02:10
You did not finish typing how to do this???
Malcolm
2009-09-20 13:16:05
D'oh. Sorry. I forgot to mark my example as "code" and StackOverflow hides tags unless they're in "code" blocks.
Dave Markle
2009-09-20 23:37:44