Problems with Web.Config

Question

I am having difficulty using several web.config on my system. In my web.config main i have the following configuration:

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="BASE_URL" value="/mvc/" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

And in my file web.release.config i have the following modification:

<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
  <appSettings>
    <add key="BASE_URL" value="/mvc" xdt:Transform="Replace" xdt:Locator="Match(key)"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

But when I call the estate BASE_URL, it is returning me the value of the main config and not in the modifier, even if I use the Release configuration to build the project.

I’m using C# MVC4 in VS2013

Answer 1

There are three Web.config settings:

• Web.config - Is used in any Configuration Manager (Debug/Release) situation while you are running your application directly through Visual Studio.
• Web.Debug.config - Used for publishing when Configuration Manager is in Debug
• Web.Release.config - Used for publishing when Configuration Manager is in Release

So you can achieve three situations where your variables can be changed, I particularly find this advantageous in situations that deal with local addresses, the configuration Web.config points to a physical location on my machine (e.g.: C:/Test/), and the others point to the respective IIS virtual addresses (e.g.: /Debug/Files/ for Debug and /Release/Files/ for Release).

Answer 2

Go to the BUILD Menu -> Configuration Manager.

In the "Active Solution Configuration" combo, change to release. Check that the file . config that will be used is actually the web.config.release.