4- Build Configurations

ok, imagine we want to build a configuration for a testing or staging environement we may use a different mail servers, or mail message box and so on so, from the toolbar from this dropdown list, select configuration manager and then in this dropdown list use release build and use debug only when you are on development server ok, now that we have a new build configuration. If you go to solution explorer and right click web.config we will see a new item here so we have web.debug, web.Release and now we have web.testing so as an example, we can get this connection string here and put it out of the comments and this way we can overwrite the connection string to our database so here we change the name of the connection string to default connection because in our parents web.config here is the parent this is the name we use for our connection string now back here, you see here we have a different connection string, so datasource=releaseSQLServer we when we delpoy our application staging or production use release build and use debug only when you are on development server ok, now that we have a new build configuration. If you go to solution explorer and right click web.config we will see a new item here, Add Config Transform, see what happens, we have a new config file so we have web.debug, web.Release and now we have web.testing so as an example, we can get this connection string here and put it out of the comments and this way we can overwrite the connection string to our database so here we change the name of the connection string to default connection because in our parents web.config here is the parent this is the name we use for our connection string now back here, you see here we have a different connection string, so datasource=releaseSQLServer we when we deploy our application this configuration will transform our parents web.config so now we can add any other setting that is specific to our setting environment, now let me show you demo so I am gonna save this file remember the connection string is pointing to release SQL server now, in solution explorer, I am going to the publish wizard again profile tab, look, first of all, you have an existing profile now I am gonna create a new one testing, change the publish method to file system and location to testing now in the setting in the configuration we have a new item and now let's deploy I am gonna bring up the deployment folder I am gonna bring this web.config into VS here the default connection and it is pointing to releaseSQLServer so this is how build configuration works And finally before we finish this lecture in solution explorer if you open property under publish profile you see we have 2 different profile so imagine, this is for our production deployment and this is for deploying to our testing environment so both this file are just html so here include the setting for each deployment environment and when you check all this to your source control all these publish profile are available for all developers in the team so next time someone wants to deploy, they just go to the publish wizard and select the right profile and then do the deployment next I am going to talk about custom application setting