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SteveC
SteveC

Reputation: 16743

How can you transform an app.config from a second transform specification?

How can you transform an app.config from a second transform specification?

The existing SlowCheetah extension does a great job, but as far as I can see, it only works against the build configuration

But web applications can have two transforms, one for the build configuration and a second for the publish profile, which are applied to the original web.config

How can you replicate this for a desktop application with an app.config?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (1)

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Reputation: 44322

In Visual Studio there are two levels of transformations. - Transform based on build configuration (i.e. web.release.config) - Profile specific transforms

The idea being that if you need to share transforms across profiles you can create a new build config and define shared transforms and then you can create profile specific transforms for the items which are environment specific.

To create build config transforms, you can right click on web.config and select Add Transforms. To create a profile specific transform you can right click on the publish profile (.pubxml file under Properties\PublishProfiles). For more detailed info see the doc at http://www.asp.net/web-forms/overview/older-versions-getting-started/deployment-to-a-hosting-provider/deployment-to-a-hosting-provider-web-config-file-transformations-3-of-12

Upvotes: 1

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