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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:24:47+00:00

I use VS 2008 to develop and I use CCNet to build, test and

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I use VS 2008 to develop and I use CCNet to build, test and deploy our applications to a staging server. I would like to be able to remove the debug="true" setting from web.config as part of the deployment process.

I know I could just set <deployment retail="true"/> in machine.config, but I don’t always have that much access the servers we deploy to. I could just write a bit of code to strip the setting from the web.config, but I was wondering if there was a way I could do it out of the box with msbuild or CCNet.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the MSBuild Community Tasks and do:

    <XmlUpdate 
        XmlFileName="web.config" 
        XPath="//configuration/system.web/compilation/@debug" 
        Value="false"/>

    Or you can use various built-in Visual Studio transformation techniques:

    <configuration xmlns:xdt="...">
    <compilation xdt:Transform="RemoveAttributes(debug,batch)">
    </compilation>
    </configuration>

    • VS2005 and 2008 Web Deployment projects allow you to substitute portions of a web config (as Paddy linked to)
    • Not certain but MSDeploy has some form of capability around this
    • NAnt has an xmlpoke

    NB this is a duplicate of
    Setting debug=false in web.config as part of build (Which I found too late; have put a vote to close on this)

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