VS2012 pubxml and TransformWebConfigEnabled

Question

Maybe someone can advise me.

I am trying to publish a project using VS2012. I have setup a publish profile to publish it to a file system drive.

I have several environments/build configurations required and thusly am using Web.Config transformations.

At the moment, I have a web.config + 5 transforms (one for each build config). When the solution is published, it successfully deploys to the file system specified. However it also transforms the Web.Config into web.config.

I have modified the .pubxml to include the <TransformWebConfigEnabled>False</TransformWebConfigEnabled> element, but the publish process just seems to ignore it and transform the web.config regardless. Followed via this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465342(v=vs.100).aspx

Can anyone advise?

[edit] I have tried putting <TransformWebConfigEnabled>False</TransformWebConfigEnabled> element into both the pubxml and the proj file and both ways it get's completely ignored and the web.config is transformed regardless.

Answer 1

You are sticking it in the wrong file. You want to modify

YourProject.csproj

instead of PublishProfile.pubxml.