In this post I am hoping to explain how you can change your web.config settings per different server environment using Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for VS 2005 or VS 2008�
First of all let me start with the fact that WDP for VS 2005 as well as WDP for VS 2008 are build configuration aware� In fact, special effort was made in WDP 2005 & WDP 2008 to allow configuration specific settings�
That is the reason when you look at the WDP UI you can see configuration specific dropdowns as shown below:
You can create one build configuration per your server environment eg. �Testing�, �Staging� , �Production� etc and configure all of your WDP settings per build configuration pretty easily� Learn more how to manage configurations per build environment�
Next I want to change connectionStrings section in side the web.config for �Testing� server and �Release� server� The original connection String section in my web.config file looks as below:
<connectionStrings>
<add name="vishal-db" connectionString="Data Source=vijoshi-DevBox; Initial Catalog=vishal-db; Integrated Security=True"/>
</connectionStrings>
- For �Testing� environment I would like to change my Data Source to be vijoshi-Testing
- For �Release� environment I would like to change my Data Source to be vijoshi-Release
To accomplish this I am going to add two configuration files to my project named connectionString.Testing.config and connectionString.Release.config� After adding the two files my solution explorer should look as below:
The content of connectionString.Testing.config file will look as below:
<connectionStrings>
<add name="vishal-db" connectionString="Data Source=vijoshi-Testing; Initial Catalog=vishal-db; Integrated Security=True"/>
</connectionStrings>
Notice that the connectionString.Testing.config only contains connectionStrings section (as opposed to original web.config which may contain many other sections) � Similar to the above example in connectionString.Release.config file I will only change the Data Source to vijoshi-Release�
After this when I build my WDP project the connectionStrings section will be replaced by the content of the connectionString.Testing.config�
Also now I can modify the Configuration from �Testing� to �Release� and set the Web.config file section replacements section to look as below
connectionStrings=connectionString.Release.config
This way you can also modify the other config sections each in a new line of the text box shown above�
Hope this will help�
-Vishal
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