Configuration Transforms

App.config xdt transforms

Here is a little hack you can do to enable transformations in app.config like you can in your web.config.

A quick intro to transformations, they can make your life a bit easier by storing different configs in different files that, depending on your build configuration, end up in the actual config file. Here is a simple example.

This is the original web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
	<add key="SomeSetting" value="true" />
	<add key="Title" value="Debug" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

And there is also a web.Release.config, that looks like this: