Azure web.config per environment

Question

I have a Azure project (Azure 1.3) in VS2010. There are 2 webroles, one web page project and one WCF project. In debug mode I want the web project to use a web.config for DE

Answer 1

I like this question !

For worker roles, I solved this problem by detecting the environment at runtime and launching my 'application' in a new AppDomain with a custom configuration :

• bot.cloud.config
• bot.dev.config
• bot.win.config

This is incredibly efficient !

I'd like to do the same with web projects, because using the Azure specific configuration is a lot of trouble :

• Both config are not in the same place, which is time-consuming when debugging
• You have to learn a new way of writing something that sould be standard
• Sometime you'll wonder if the app falled back on web.config because of a stupid syntax error

I'm still searching the right way to do that, like in this post