title: Migrating ASP.NET MVC 5 bundling "versions" to MVC 6
body: <p>The bundling feature is excluded from MVC 6 and the suggested method is to do bundling using gulp tasks.</p>
  
  <p>Using bundling we used to get a random <strong>string</strong> at the end of the included css/javascript file url(s). This <strong>string</strong> was very important because once you changed anything in your css/javascript then a new <strong>string</strong> would be generated which would force browsers to load the new version(s) of the file(s). </p>
  
  <p>So if you had 3 css files they would be bundled into one and they would look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link href="/Style/css?v=sGJNctjkEuiEEdR68fh0dDt7bwrHIbu_EfQtgon7oYc1" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can we achieve the same functionality in MVC 6? I don't know whether gulp can help here or not but I am already using gulp to do minification and bundling.</p>