How to add config transformations for a custom config file in Visual Studio?

Question

The project I am working on involves reading a lot of service endpoints (url) from a config file. Since the list would be quite large I decided to keep them in a custom conf

Answer 1

I have been using SlowCheetah but I found something that I think is more elegant. Just telling to the build to generate the .config depending on the build configuration.

Having a app.Release.config in your project (or many more depending on you deployment needs) you just need to edit the project file (the .csproj one if you program in C#). Find the end of it, between the last and and add:

  
  
  
  
    
      $(OutputType)
      dll
      dll
      exe
    
    
  

Save and reload from VisualStudio. Compile in Release mode and check the bin/Release folder on your .config file the transformation is done.

This example applies to Exe and Dll files and any VisualStudio version because includes this post help