web-config-transform

I'm using SlowCheetah for XML transforming a bunch of config files in a project. However, this same solution is part of a load balanced setup, where some config values differ between the different servers (two, in this case). I have the following build configs Debug Release Release.Test Release.Prod1 Release.Prod2 Almost everything in Release.Prod1 and Release.Prod2 is identical, except for some values in one of the config files. Is there any way I can have a file like Something.Release.Prod.Config to be used on both of these build configs instead of having two identical files ( Something

My team is in love with publish profiles. We have a number of testing environments that we work in, and using Web.config transforms we're able to substitute the names of machines in each environment, configuration settings, etc, which makes our build/deploy/test process much easier. For example: Web.config Web.dev.config Web.int.config Web.prod.config However, we have a number of test applications that we use to hit our web services, implemented as Console applications. We'd like to be able to do the same type of transforms on these config files, so that we can reduce manual labor of testing

I'm using a web.config transform to replace settings with the settings of the selected solution configuration. However, I would like to add a setting that stores the datetime of the publish process. The reason for this is to be able to show a "Last published on" for my customers. Using config transforms, is there a way to replace a setting with the current date? I think you're going to need to use a customer MSBuild task to apply the change. My wife blogged about adding custom tasks to the build process (as she understands these things better than I). You might find some useful information on