Web.config transformation option is greyed out

Question

In VS2010, when I right click on my web.config file the \"Add Config Transforms\" option is greyed out.

Any idea how I can get that back?

Answer 1

We have a solution with 140+ projects and over 13 different configurations, besides the default Debug and Release configurations. I ran into the same problem with one of my projects in that solution. The Add Config Transforms item was grayed out, yet I only had the Debug and Release web.config transforms. I believe this was because the project was probably added to the solution after all the custom configurations were created.

I went into the Configuration Manager and observed that the project didn't have all the other configurations available. I had to manually add each missing configuration by specifying and the name. Once that was done, the Add Config Transforms is available.