Visual Studio transforms only web.config files by default. If you need custom config file with transformation for DEV, UAT, PROD, etc environments, then try to Use custom extensions for Visual Studio like SlowCheetah – XML Transforms for Config transformation preview functionality. Add for the project from Nuget SlowCheetah to provide build in transformation. A little … Read more
I’m sorry to tell you that the publish.xml file which VS2010 uses was not designed to be used in this way. In fact it was not even designed to be checked-in/shared with others. The logic for reading/writing those files are strictly contained inside Visual Studio and not available through MSBuild. So there is no straight … Read more
As quoted from URLPrefix Strings (Windows): When the host element of a UrlPrefix consists of a single plus sign (+), the UrlPrefix matches all possible host names in the context of its scheme, port and relativeURI elements, and falls into the strong wildcard category. When an asterisk (*) appears as the host element, then the … Read more
OK let me first say that this is way harder than it should be! I think the reason why it is failing is because when you are publishing it cannot recognize the folder as being a folder in the IIS Application. The reason this is happening is because the full path is being transferred to … Read more
Edit: It turns out you are right: the skip directive is ignored when executed from Visual Studio. Fortunately, there’s a workaround. What you want is this: <!– Skip the deletion of any file within the ErrorLog directory –> <MsDeploySkipRules Include=”SkipErrorLogFolder1″> <SkipAction>Delete</SkipAction> <ObjectName>filePath</ObjectName> <AbsolutePath>ErrorLog</AbsolutePath> </MsDeploySkipRules> In addition, you need to prevent VS from using the UI-task … Read more