I've recently started using Xamarin/MonoDevelop as an alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio and my first project was to create a website using ASP.NET with MVC pattern. This has been going well, and I don't mind the extra code work, but I'm having a rough time with the CSS.
For whatever reason, any CSS file only seems to compile once, ignoring any changes I write to the file. From my research, this because content files are cached for the build.
Is there a method in Xamorin's files, Microsoft's aspnet and web packages, or Newtonsoft's or Razor's library? If so, in which part of my solution do I call it?
Is there an add-on to Xamarin? How do I use it?
Do I have to modify a config file?
As pointed out in the comments, the issue was being caused by the browser cache not refreshing with changes to the build. The solution to this is to append a version to the end of the path name for the stylesheet. Since I am using cshtml, I decided to use this:
<head>
@{
string version = "?v=2";
string stylePathSite = "../../Content/Styles/SiteStyles.css" +
version;
string stylePathNav = "../../Content/Styles/NavBarStyles.css" +
version;
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@stylePathSite"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@stylePathNav"/>
</head>
I can later write a controller to be update the version variable from my model. Hope any fellow newbies out there find this helpful.