Web Deploy / Publish is adding a unknown connection string?

Question

Previously publishing my web api app was working perfectly. Today i converted my app from being \"any cpu\" to x86. Now when i\'m publishing its adding a connection string t

Answer 1

Edit project .csproj file and add this:

<PropertyGroup>
<InsertAdditionalWebCofigConnectionStrings>false</InsertAdditionalWebCofigConnectionStrings>

It worked for me.

Answer 2

The solution that worked for me, although it's more of a hack, was using the web deploy transformations to remove rogue connection string. See user2395249 answer:

One-click publish in vs 2012: how to remove _ConnectionStringsToInsert?

Answer 3

In the .pubxml file there where some extra connectionstrings added for some reason. Remove all of them and it should work fine, the default connectionstring will still be added.

I have a hunch that this has been added to the .pubxml when I fiddled a little with my publishing information but it wasn't removed when I switched back to my regular publish setup.

<ItemGroup>
    <MSDeployParameterValue Include="$(DeployParameterPrefix)DefaultConnection-Web.config Connection String" />
    <MSDeployParameterValue Include="$(DeployParameterPrefix)MyProject-Web.config Connection String" />
    <MSDeployParameterValue Include="$(DeployParameterPrefix)MyProject_dev-Web.config Connection String" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <_ConnectionStringsToInsert Include="MyProject" />
    <_ConnectionStringsToInsert Include="Myproject_dev" />
  </ItemGroup>

Answer 4

Add this project property to the .csproj file by editing the XML:

<Project>
  <PropertyGroup>

    <AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings>false</AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings>

    ...
  </PropertyGroup>
  ...
</Project>

Alternatively, use a Web Publishing Pipeline targets file as described in this related StackOverflow question.