{version} wildcard in MVC4 Bundle

The -{version} basically maps to a version regex, or to be precise: (\d+(?:\.\d+){1,3}).
Using * tends to grab too much, for example if you bundle jquery*, that will include jquery-ui as well which might mess up the ordering. But using jquery-{version}.js would let you avoid having to update your bundle definition every time you upgrade jquery.

Additional things to note:

  • {version} only works for the last part of the path–basically the file name–not a directory.
  • multiple version of jquery in the same folder will all get caught up.

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