Transforming files with msdeploy

Question

Can I use the config transforms mechanism of MSDeploy to transform other files?

Answer 1

Just to add to this awnser, in order to modify other files than the web.config in an application published with msdeploy (webdeploy) you can set the scope attribute in the parameters.xml file in the root of the project:

scope is a regex that will be used to find files to apply the match xpath to. I havent experimented with this extensively but as far as I understand it simply replaces what ever the xpath matches with the value that is provided later.

There are also other values that can be used for kind that will have different behaviors than an xpath, see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd569084(v=ws.10).aspx for details

note: this applies to when you're using a parameters.xml, not when using the web.config.Debug/Release files