I have the following transform written in the live config of my web.config. <system.webServer> <rewrite xdt:Transform="Insert"> <rules> <rule name="httpsrewrite"> <m...

I have numerous different Web.configs in my MVC 5 Application for different environments - e.g. Test/Prod I have web transforms in place to change values for the different environments. So for exa...

My build: Build with msbuild (/t: build) Publish with msbuild (/t: publish) Package with nuget Deploy with octopus produces an artifact (nuget package) that contains the following files: Azur...

I'm trying to remove my web.release.config from my GIT repository, so I removed it from git with git rm and then added it to my .gitignore file. But as soon as I copy again the file into the proje...

I don't know if this is an environmental issue or something; however, I have been in Configuration Manager and I have added a new "Test" and "Release", now those appear along with Debug. I went to ...

We are trying to integrate a 'build once, deploy anywhere' model in our build-deploy system. MSDeploy works wonders for this, cutting down build time dramatically with CRC checksum comparisons and...

When you apply any commands like 'update-database' 'add-migration' The EF uses the connection string in your main web.config even if you have configured web.debug.config and web.release.config...

I'm trying to auto-detect web.configs as part of a transform pre-build event in one of my web application project files, this code goes up one folder level from my project file and gets all web.con...

I created an ASP.NET MVC web application project which I commit to Visual Studio Online (Git repo) and is linked to a Windows Azure website for automatic deployment (if all unit tests succeed). My ...

I am in a situation where I just want to update a part of a the URL of a WCF endpoint. Right now we do this by including different configs with all the endpoints per 'variety'. This is tedious to m...

Releasing before Azure: Before using Azure, we would just have read-only config files sitting in the different environments (test, staging and production, etc.). During a release, all application ...