Config Transformation Visual Studio Extension

Version 1.5.0.0

Author marazt

Copyright marazt

License The MIT License (MIT)

Last updated 24 March 2019

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About

This extension enables ability to transform various config file even there does not exist build definition for the transformation file.
For example, if you have multiple configuration transformations, e.g., web.Debug.config, web.Release.config, web.UAT1.config, web.UAT2.config, web.UAT3.config, web.Production1.config, web.Production2.config. And you want switch between these configuration while developing without changing actual build definition or editing the web.config manually.

Abilities

• Generate configuration transformation while developing.
• Preview transformation result.
• Application output (transformation progress, errors, infomation) in General Output window.
• Configuration in Tools -> Options -> Config transformation menu.
• Transformation file nesting, can be set in Tools -> Options -> Config transformation menu.
• Supports Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017.

How To Use It

• File you want to change must be checked out (not locked, not readonly).
• Click on the transformation configuration you want to run with the right mouse button and click "Execute transformation" option.

• Extension options can be found in Tools -> Options -> Config Transformation

• Information about transformation can be found in General Output Window.
• You can see the transformation preview by Preview transformation menu item.

TODO

• Unit tests - because the project was a long time private and written very fast for internal purposes, no tests were written, although they should :/.

Versions

Version 1.5.0.0 - 2019/03/24 Support for VS2019

• Support for VS2019. Thanks @tbertenshaw for PR.

Version 1.4.0.0 - 2018/02/08 Support for VS2017

• Support for VS2017. Thanks @tbertenshaw for PR.

Version 1.3.7.0 - 2016/04/09 (Added to GitHub)

• New option item Write attributes on a separate line added. If this option is set to true, transformed config has every attribute on separate line. Default value is false.

Version 1.3.6.0 - 2015/09/12

• Removement of the .NET 4.5 dependency which caused that it was not possible to install the extension although the framework was correctly installed.

Version 1.3.5.0 - 2015/09/12

• Change of the temporary config file to ".config" instead of ".tmp" to enable syntax coloring.

Version 1.3.4.0 - 2015/08/04

• Added support for Viasu Studio 2015.

Version 1.3.3.0 - 2014/09/23

• Bug fix: Added information message about readonly file which should set to readwrite or checked-out.

Version 1.3.2.0 - 2014/07/30

• Added transformation files nesting option.

Version 1.3.1.1 - 2014/07/20

• Bug fix

Version 1.3.1.0 - 2014/07/17

• Added Preview transformation ability.

Version 1.3.0.0 - 2014/07/16

• Added logging to General Output Window.

Version 1.2.0.0 - 2014/07/16

• Added options menu to set extension configuration in Tools -> Options -> Config Transformation.