Manage configuration files across environments

Question

How do you (your company) manage the config-files of the apps/systems you build? Let me tell you how we do it, and what the problem is.

I\'m working at a company where w

Answer 1

Personally, if it is possible, I manage it the following way: All "static" environment settings (database connections, LDAP, etc) are placed in the server config file (not affected by code migrations), and the "dynamic" settings in the database itself.

So I only depend on database team to update settings (if you have access directly to to database, it's easier). And I have no risk to run on my dev PC a code pointing to prod database :D

BUT I have NO Visual Studio experience, so I am not sure you can apply something similar in your case, but I hope it can give you some ideas.