Transforming files with msdeploy

Question

Can I use the config transforms mechanism of MSDeploy to transform other files?

Answer 1

(another approach)

The msdeploy packaging is jsut invoked during an MSbuild run for your project.

TransformXml is an included task of a .csproj or .vsproj build.

Just modify your build process to invoke that task on whatever file you need.

For example, what we do is write a custom target

Then modify your .csproj to run this BEFORE the Publish task is invoked.