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    <p>I'm very new to ASP.net, so I'm just figuring this out.</p> <p>First off, I have multiple separate projects that will be hosted on the same server.</p> <p>Second, they must be able to share certain settings (like connection string, configuration options, etc).</p> <p>Third, those shared settings must be configurable for different deployments (test, prod, etc).</p> <p>For example, I have two projects: Project A Project B</p> <p>I have a setting called "Setting1" which should be accessible to both projects.</p> <p>The value for "Setting1" should come from one of these files: "TEST-config.xml" "PROD-config.xml" (There will be more than two config files, but I'll keep it simple for now)</p> <p>And I want to have only a single place to change a single text file, which determines which of the *-config.xml files will be used:</p> <p>"WhichSettingsFile.xml"</p> <p>Here's an example of the file structure:</p> <p>\WhichSettingsFile.xml \TEST-config.xml \PROD-config.xml \Project1\Project1.csproj \Project1\web.config \Project1... (more files) \Project2\Project2.csproj \Project2\web.config \Project2... (more files)</p> <p>So currently, each project has a "web.config" like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;appSettings file="..\WhichSettingsFile.xml"&gt; ... &lt;/appSettings&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then I have a file "WhichSettingsFile.xml" like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt; &lt;appSettings&gt; &lt;add key="SettingsFilenamePrefix" value="PROD" /&gt; &lt;/appSettings&gt; </code></pre> <p>And I have code like this:</p> <pre><code>public static string GetSetting(name) { string filename = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SettingsFilenamePrefix"] + "-config.xml"; // Open filename, parse as XML, get the values I need from it. } </code></pre> <p>This means I can host both projects on Server A, set the WhichSettingsFile.xml to contain "PROD", and all settings will be read from "PROD-config.xml". I can do the same for the test server. And all those values are shared among the separate projects.</p> <p>However, I need to be able to edit these files on the filesystem, and not have them embedded within the dlls / assemblies. When I run the project(s) from visual studio, the built-in asp.net hosting server will deploy the files to something like:</p> <pre><code>C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\6\Temporary ASP.NET Files\lskdjflskj\slkdjfsld\klsjdfwbe </code></pre> <p>But there will be no "WhichSettingsFile.xml" file since it's embedded in the assembly. Furthermore, the "PROD-config.xml" and "TEST-config.xml" files will not be included since they're not really part of the "code", and are not copied.</p> <p>Ideally, I want to have this in the deployment folder:</p> <pre><code>C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\6\Temporary ASP.NET Files\abc123\Project1\(all the compiled files here) C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\6\Temporary ASP.NET Files\abc123\Project2\(all the compiled files here) C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\6\Temporary ASP.NET Files\abc123\WhichSettingsFile.xml C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\6\Temporary ASP.NET Files\abc123\PROD-config.xml C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\6\Temporary ASP.NET Files\abc123\TEST-config.xml </code></pre> <p>But I'm not sure how to do this.</p> <p>So my problems: -The "WhichSettingsFile.xml" is embedded into the assembly. I want this to be a plain text file on the filesystem that is referenced at runtime by the application. I realize I might need to avoid using for this. Is there a better way? -I want to have multiple config files, also as plain text files on the filesystem.</p> <p>I know what I've got is not working, and probably convoluted. But is there a better way to do this? Thanks!!</p>
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    1. COI think what your looking for is web.config transformations in VS. But you need to be using Visual Studio 2010 to do this.
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