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Web.Config Transformations - Visual Studio 2010

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Modified on Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:04 PM by Administrator Categorized as Visual Studio and Developer Tools

Overview

To facilitate the dependency of configuration settings to environment, Visual Studio 2010 introduced what is called web.config transformations. This articles describes how to use them.

Walk-Through

  • In addition to the traditional web.config file, there is now a web.abc.config file for each build configuration in your solution, where abc is the name of the build configuration.

  • To modify an entry in the <appSettings> node, use the following example.

<appSettings>
  <add key="EmailServer" value="MyMailServer"
      xdt:Transform="SetAttributes" xdt:Locator="Match(key)"
        />
</appSettings>

  • To modify a connection string (i.e., in the <connectionStrings> node, use the following example.

<connectionStrings>
    <add
      name="Same-Name-As-Web.Config-File"
      xdt:Transform="SetAttributes"
      xdt:Locator="Match(name)"
      connectionString="New-Connection-String"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"
   />
</connectionStrings>

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