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Is anyone aware of a way that I can set application (or user) level settings in a .Net application that are conditional on the applications current development mode? IE: Debug/Release
To be more specific, I have a url reference to my webservices held in my application settings. During release mode I would like those settings to point to http://myWebservice.MyURL.com during debug mode I would love those settings to be http://myDebuggableWebService.MyURL.com.
Any ideas?
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An application configuration file contains settings that are specific to an app. This file includes configuration settings that the common language runtime reads (such as assembly binding policy, remoting objects, and so on), and settings that the app can read.
config is parsed at runtime, so if you edit the web. config file, the web application will automatically load the changes in the config file. Â app. config is parsed at compile time, so if you edit the app.
The <appSettings> element of a web. config file is a place to store connection strings, server names, file paths, and other miscellaneous settings needed by an application to perform work.
This is somewhat late to the party, but I stumbled upon a nice way of implementing the web.transform approach for app.config files. (i.e. it makes use of the namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform)
I think it is "nice" because it is a pure xml approach and doesn't require 3rd party software.
In my opinion this is much more sophisticated and robust than having to maintain x number of config files which get copied in their entirety, such as in other answers.
A walkthrough has been posted here: http://mitasoft.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/multipleappconfig/
Look, Mom - No explicit post-build events in my IDE!
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