Question

in my web.config

<connectionStrings>

    <add name="Context" connectionString="Server=tcp:database.windows.net,1433;Database=DbDev;User ID=xxxx;Password=xxxx.;Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
<connectionStrings/>

my web.Debug.config

<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">

    <connectionStrings>

      <add name="Context" connectionString="Server=tcp:database.windows.net;Database=DbDev;
      User ID=xxxx;Password=xxxx.;
      Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" xdt:Transform="Replace" xdt:Locator="Match(name)"/>
    </connectionStrings>

  <system.web>

      <customErrors mode="Off" xdt:Transform="Replace">

      </customErrors>

    </system.web>
</configuration>

in my web.Release.config

<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">

    <connectionStrings>

      <add name="Context" connectionString="Server=tcp:database.windows.net;
           Database=DbProd;User ID=xxxx;Password=xxxx.;
           Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
            providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" 
            xdt:Transform="Replace" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" />
    </connectionStrings>

    <system.web>
    <compilation xdt:Transform="RemoveAttributes(debug)" />

      <customErrors defaultRedirect="GenericError.htm" mode="On" xdt:Transform="Replace">
        <error statusCode="500" redirect="InternalError.htm"/>
      </customErrors>

    </system.web>
</configuration>

it’s just not getting the production database DbProd

Answer 1

i think when running ‘release’ mode in VS, it will transform the web.release.config file, but it won’t use it due to some reasons ( cache? bin?).However, when I publish it in the Azure environment, then it will get the config correctly