Question

I’ve got my web.config. I have the box on the “Solution Configurations” set to Release, and what I’ve done is modify web.release.config to look like this (actual connection details redacted of course):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
  <connectionStrings>
   <add name="ApplicationServices"
     connectionString="data source=mysite.com;Database=mydb;uid=myuser;pwd=mypassword;"
     providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"/>
  </connectionStrings>
  <system.web>
   <compilation xdt:Transform="RemoveAttributes(debug)" />
  </system.web>
</configuration>

The connectionString that I added, however, does not get included whenever I use the publish feature to put it up on my production server. Any suggestions on some critical step I’m missing?

Answer 1

You need to specify the transformation in your element. Add xdt:Locator="Match(name)" xdt:Transform="SetAttributes(connectionString)" in the add element. Check the MSDN reference.