The Microsoft Ajax Minifier enables you to improve the performance of your Ajax applications by reducing the size of your Cascading Style Sheet and JavaScript files. 
After you install the Microsoft Ajax Minifier, you can use the tool from the command line. You can integrate the Microsoft Ajax Minifier into your Visual Studio Build process. Every time you perform a build in a Visual Studio ASP.NET project, you can minify all of your JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet files automatically. Get Ajax Minifier and take it for a spin to see what it can actually do for you!

What's New in This Release:
· change the default input and output encodings to UTF-8. Should still read ASCII input files just fine, but if your build/product depends on the output being an ASCII file and having extended characters encoded in the output using the uXXXX syntax rather than simple UTF-8 sequences, then you will need to add -enc:out ascii to your AjaxMin build switches to output as ASCII. Most people seem to be expecting UTF-8 to be the default for both input and output.
· Fix issue #18304: catch variables defined between a child scope referencing an outer variable above the catch scope need to resolve correctly.
· fix an issue where the -enc:out switch wasn't being honored when using -xml switch.
· adjust usage text to be more consistent in syntax and in-line with the online documentation.
· when using JSCombinedFileName and/or CssCombinedFileName properties in the build task, minify the input files first, then concatenate the results (rather concatenating the source and minifying) so error line/...