How do you deal with connection strings when deploying an ASP.NET site?

Question

Right now our test and production databases are on the same server, but with different names. Deploying has meant editing Web.config to change all the connection strings for th

Answer 1

We drive our a deployments from our CI server. We usualy have a seperate file for each location and have the CI server switch to the appropriate config depending on the arguments passed ot it. All the file editing is done in NAnt scripts, so develops can run the sam build on their machine to get their own settings.