Visual Studio 2010 can apply Debug or Release transformations to Web.config, but what about the Azure settings?

Question

Do I have to manually edit the Azure connection strings myself to switch between production and development, or is there something comparable to the Transformation Visual St

Answer 1

You can use CloudConfigurationManager in Azure SDK 1.7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/LIBRARY/microsoft.windowsazure.cloudconfigurationmanager

This starts by looking in the ServiceConfiguration.cscfg e.g. ServiceConfiguration.Cloud.cscfg for config setting. If it isn't there it falls back to web.config and app.config

For example

CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString")

Will look in the appropriate cscfgfile for StorageConnectionString setting, then it will search the web.config and then app.config.