Hello,
I have a Website project with a lot of aspx sites. I would like to find out is there any tool that will allow me to remove all white spaces and comments from the aspx files? I don't want to do it on run-time because it's not performance optimal. I would like to do it just before deployment.
Is there any ready tool, or should I write a simple console app, that would use REGEX to eliminate the unnecessary white spaces and comments?
Regards, Adam
For what purpose? Obfuscation?
If you're just trying to reduce the size of HTTP responses to the end user, you are much better off telling the web server to use compression on your output. This zips the spaces away to nothing and gives much smaller results than ‘minification’.
(Unless you are retaining loads of <!-- comments --> in which case you should simply change them to <%-- server-side comments --%>.)
Don't try to process ASP.NET with regex. Neither HTML nor aspx-templates are regular languages and together they are much, much more complicated than regex can handle. Naïve approaches like looking for spaces outside of <[^>]*> constructs are very likely to mess up your pages.
Yeah, there is no need to do it on run-time. Because it can be done on compile-time. Check this link out: http://omari-o.blogspot.com/2009/09/aspnet-white-space-cleaning-with-no.html