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POIn IIS, how should environment/site-specific WEB.CONFIG settings be preserved, when using MSDeploy?
 

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    <h1>Background</h1> <p>I work in QA at a software company.</p> <p>We have about a half a dozen different web applications, each of which may require, at any given site, some customised settings added to its <strong>web.config</strong> file.</p> <p>These can range from which Oracle database/schema(s) the app connects to, to how many search results to cache, to which hierarchy to use when sorting items on a web page.</p> <p>We make use of Microsoft's Deploy package, to get the new releases installed/updated on client sites.</p> <p>When we put out a new release, some of these customised settings may have been added to or removed from the given web app's <strong>web.config</strong> file, but using Deploy to import the new release over the top of the old one will clobber any customisations that may have been made.</p> <h1>Alternatives</h1> <p>There are ways of handling this manually, such as merging via a plain text comparison of the old and new <strong>web.config</strong> files, but these are cumbersome and prone to human error.</p> <p>I was reading about <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326%28VS.100%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">transformations</a> and thought they could be of some use.</p> <p>There is also the capability to <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/01/17/10-things-asp-net-developers-should-know-about-web-config-inheritance-and-overrides.aspx" rel="nofollow">use external files (tip #8)</a> which seems like a good way to go.</p> <h1>Improvement?</h1> <p>Should our programmers be providing some sort of semi-automated merge facility for this <strong>web.config</strong> file? Does the Deploy package provide this somehow?</p> <p>Should we be making use of the external config files, as a best practice?</p> <p>Is the concept of customising this <strong>web.config</strong> file at each site so fundamentally flawed that the whole thing needs to be re-thought?</p>
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    1. CO@BrentPabst Thanks for the info on transformations! I wasn't sure whether to post this here or on Stack Overflow, and didn't want to double-up straight away.
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