Azure connection string best practices

Question

I have an application that I am just migrating to Azure. Currently I use web.config transformation to manage changing the database connecting string dev/staging/prod environ

Answer 1

I had the same requirement for transforming ServiceConfiguration.

I went with the answer from jmac (thank you!), but had trouble with the namespace in the Base version:

after a bit more poking around found this by Andrew Patterson (Thank You).

so my resulting transform file: