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

This kind of task is exactly what build events are designed to address. Think of building as building for a specific target, any target specific configuration should be done there. (with the normal caveat that there are always some exceptions to the rule)