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user3953989
user3953989

Reputation: 1929

Is there a native way to change web.config settings on build dynamically?

We're using a library that needs to have a value updated in the web.config with every build. Is there a way to do this natively?

We're using a library that has a custom config section in the web.config

The version attribute needs to be updated with every build. Increment or even DateTime.Now equivalent would work.

<clientDependency version="6">
...
</clientDependency>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1930

Answers (3)

hoangitk
hoangitk

Reputation: 94

Here is other sample to do with XmlPoke in MSBuild.

Auto replace VersionBuild value with yyyyMMddmmss when publish

Web.config
<appSettings>
    <add key="VersionBuild" value=".121"/>
</appSettins>

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    <PropertyGroup>
      <CurrentDate>$([System.DateTime]::Now.ToString(yyyyMMddmmss))</CurrentDate>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <XmlPoke 
      Condition="'$(PublishProfileName)' != ''"
      XmlInputPath="Web.config"
      Query="/configuration/appSettings/add[@key = 'VersionBuild']/@value"
      Value=".$(CurrentDate)" />
</Target>

Upvotes: -1

Anderson Pimentel
Anderson Pimentel

Reputation: 5767

You can try using MSBuild Tasks.

Maybe XMLPoke to update the web.config with a formatted date/time string:

<Target Name="EchoTime">
    <Time Format="yyyyMMddHHmmss">
        <Output TaskParameter="FormattedTime" PropertyName="currentTime" />
    </Time>
    <Message Text = "$(currentTime)" />
</Target>

<Target Name="UpdateWebConfig">
  <XmlPoke 
      XmlInputPath="web.config"
      Query="//<complete-path>/clientDependency/@version"
      Value="$(currentTime)" />
</Target>

Moving the updatable section to an external file, using configSource could also make the job easier.

Upvotes: 4

Christian Gollhardt
Christian Gollhardt

Reputation: 17014

You should first review, why exactly the config change on every build. This seems not to be good. Maybe you can change this.

However, with Visual Studio 2013 the Gulp Task Runner was introduced.

You could abuse it a little bit.

Basicly:

Upvotes: 1

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