Comments on: A custom MSBuild task for merging config files

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:40:33 +0000

This works great, thanks alot!

By: punit

punit — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:14:30 +0000

Hello Ross,

I have found another way to accomplish the merging, though its a little bit more manual, but definitely faster and easier than manual merge. You can check out the XmlMassUpdate task from the MSBuild Community Tasks to accomplish and manage the merging. Also, be sure to checkout another library of tasks, MSBuild Extension Pack, on codeplex, that has a lot of additional helpful tasks..

By: codingcockerel

codingcockerel — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:27:33 +0000

@Tim,

If you read on, the rest of the post describes how to do it. To see the code, go to CodePlex

https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=codingcockerel&ReleaseId=12739

and follow the MergeConfigTask.zip link.

Ross

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:47:28 +0000

“Ideally the list of settings to merge would be self-maintaining, i.e. any settings found in the environment-specific config file would simply be enumerated and copied into web.config, rather than being explicitly listed in the build script. I decided to create my own MSBuild task for doing this..”
— Could you post the code? I’m trying to do exactly that. It sure would save me a bunch of time..