web-config-transform

Is it possible to change connection string (or just server host) relying on selected web publish profile? Maybe using Web.config transform or someway else? I mean for profile "Test" change connection string "MyConnString" (in published Web.config) to "Data Source='example.com,14333;..." and for profile "Production" - to "Data Source=./SQLExpress;..." This is exactly what web config transforms were created for. The link you provided in your post has a walkthrough of doing this specifically for connection strings. To start with the transforms, right-click your web.config file in the project

I was trying to deploy my app into different environments then i started following this how to: Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Hosting Provider using Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer: Web.Config File Transformations - 3 of 12 was perfect until I clicked in Preview Transform , I received this error: Microsoft Visual Studio Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform, Version=1.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (I created just one transformation Web.DebugQA.config and of

I am trying to transform all of the web.config files in a project I have, here's a my tree structure: Transform.bat Transforms ConfigTransform.proj Web.Transform.config Website web.config Views web.config There's more web.config files, but the idea is that this will find all of them and apply the same config transform on them. I've taken a few hints from a blog post I found but I get stuck in the last step, the actual transformation. Also there's a bit of a rough part in the middle that I don't really like (I don't quite understand what I'm doing and I'm obviously doing it wrong). Here's where

I have a web.config file in which I need to either insert the <configSections /> element or manipulate children of that node if it already exists. If it already exists I don't want to insert it again (obviously, as it is only allowed to exist once). Normally, that would not be a problem, however: If this element is in a configuration file, it must be the first child element of the element. Source: MSDN . So if I use xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" the <configSections /> element will always be inserted after any existing child elements (and there are always some), violating the above

I've got the following configuration in web.config: <resizer> <sizelimits imageWidth="0" /> <plugins> <add name="MvcRoutingShim" /> <!--<add name="AzureReader" connectionString="DataConnectionString" /> --> <add name="DiskCache" /> <add name="PrettyGifs" /> <add name="AnimatedGifs" /> </plugins> </resizer> In web.config.Release, how can I add the AzureReader element as a child of the plugins element (effectively uncommenting out the above)? I'm familiar with how to do basic transformations but have never done this before. You can use the Insert transformation: <resizer> <plugins> <add name=