How to do a web.config transform for smtp?

Question

I have this in my root web.config

 <mailSettings>      <smtp from="[email protected]" deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">          <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\temp"/>          <network host="localhost"/>      </smtp>  </mailSettings> 

Of course when I put this to my hosting server I don't want it to be saving to the harddrive I want it to send out the emails.

So I would have something like this

<system.net>   <mailSettings>     <smtp deliveryMethod="Network">       <network host="smtp.mysite.com" userName="myuser" password="mypassword" />     </smtp>   </mailSettings> </system.net> 

How could I put this in my web.release.config? Should I just do a replace of the mailSettings. I am not sure really how to the transforms yet.

Answer 1

Add xdt:Transform="Replace" to your .release

<system.net>   <mailSettings>     <smtp deliveryMethod="Network" xdt:Transform="Replace">       <network host="smtp.mysite.com" userName="myuser" password="mypassword" />     </smtp>   </mailSettings> </system.net> 

Answer 2

You could use web.config transformation in asp.net 4

you would write a transformation rule to match a local rule to be replaced when you are publishing your website in a specific transformation

there is some great information on this here

http://blog.hmobius.com/post/2010/02/17/ASPNET-40-Part-4-Config-Transformation-Files.aspx (Archived version)