Change connection string from development to production when publishing

Question

I want to know how to change automatically the connection string of my app so when I\'m working on it in my pc, it uses my local SQL Server and once I publish it then uses t

Answer 1

I decided to bypass the whole web.config and instead integrate a function that determines the connection string based off of the current machine it is running from. To set this up I had to set up my ApplicationDbContext() to gather the connection string from the function like so:

public ApplicationDbContext() : base(CFFunctions.GetCFConnection())
{
}

Note that my function is Static:

    public static string GetCFConnection()
    {
        string Connection = "";

        string Machine = System.Environment.MachineName.ToLower();

        switch(Machine)
        {
            case "development":
                Connection = @"Data Source=DEV_SRV;Initial Catalog=CeaseFire;Integrated Security=True"; 
                break;
            case "production":
                Connection = @"Data Source=PRO_SRV;Initial Catalog=CeaseFire;Integrated Security=True";
                break;
        }

        return Connection;
    }