Web Config Transform Snippets

config-transformations

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This portion goes closer to the top, again valid for web.config based projects
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<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Trunk-Release|AnyCPU'">
  <OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Test-Release|AnyCPU'">
  <OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Dev-Debug|AnyCPU'">
  <OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

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This portion goes about half way down in the project definitely, valid for web.config based projects
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<Content Include="Web.Base.config">
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>
</Content>
<Content Include="Web.Dev.config">
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>
  <DependentUpon>Web.Base.config</DependentUpon>
  <IsTransformFile>True</IsTransformFile>
</Content>
<Content Include="Web.Trunk.config">
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>
  <DependentUpon>Web.Base.config</DependentUpon>
  <IsTransformFile>True</IsTransformFile>
</Content>
<Content Include="Web.Test.config">
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>
  <DependentUpon>Web.Base.config</DependentUpon>
  <IsTransformFile>True</IsTransformFile>
</Content>


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This block goes at the end of the .csproj file, it's valid for web projects with web.configs
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<UsingTask TaskName="TransformXml" AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll" />
<PropertyGroup>
  <ConfigFileName>Web.$(Configuration.Replace('-Release','').Replace('-Debug','')).config</ConfigFileName>
</PropertyGroup>    
<Target Name="AfterCompile" Condition="$(Configuration.Contains('-')) And exists($(ConfigFileName))">
  <!-- Generate transformed web config in the intermediate directory -->
  <TransformXml Source="Web.Base.config" Destination="Web.config" Transform="$(ConfigFileName)" />
</Target>