Developer specific app.config/web.config files in Visual Studio

Question

We have several .NET projects where we store certain settings in configuration files.

Now each developer will have their own configuration files that differ a little

Answer 1

We have the same problem and what we are doing is

• Check in the web.config with testserver / production values
• Developer goes to windows explorer and change the read only mode of the file
• Edit the config to suit to their environment.
• Check in into the web.config happens only when deployment values changes or any config entry is added or deleted.
• This needs a good amount of comment for each config entry as it needs to be changed by each dev