This tool I wrote is a Windows application that allows you to interact with the Microsoft Ajax Minifier without using the command line or Visual Studio. With this GUI tool you can do the following:
- browse to the JavaScript file to be minified
- run the minifier in the background
- enable/disable the minifier’s hypercrunch and analysis options
- open the output folder once the minifier finishes
- view the minifier’s output
Download
Download the free GUI tool for the Microsoft Ajax Minifier.
More information about the Microsoft Ajax Minifier
The Microsoft Ajax Minifier reduces the size of a JavaScript file by removing unnecessary content from the JavaScript file. The tool supports two modes: normal crunching and hypercrunching.
In normal crunching, the tool strips comments, unnecessary whitespace, curly-braces, and semicolons from a JavaScript file. In hypercrunching mode, the the tool shortens the names of local variables (variables in functions but not global variables) and removes unreachable code.
For detailed information about the Microsoft Ajax Minifier, check these sources:
- Scott Guthrie’s announcement of the Microsoft Ajax Minifier tool
- Stephen Walter’s post, Using the Microsoft Ajax Minifier
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