Month: September 2014

Workaround – SlowCheetah Bug #124 (Multiple XML transformed in Setup Project)

October 25, 2017 / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

We had the issue described here at work last week with SlowCheetah and multiple transformed XML files to be deployed via a Setup Project.  After digging through the SlowCheetah and Microsoft MSBuild scripts I still haven’t found the SlowCheetah fix yet but will keep trying. In the meantime, I did find a workaround. Workaround Steps …

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ParameterizationPreview Visual Studio Extension

September 8, 2014 / MSDeploy / 5 Comments

We decided to make the jump to MSDeploy/WebDeploy Parameterization for changing our configuration files in lieu of Config Transformation a few weeks ago.  This was a tough decision as I had grown fond of and evangelized Config Transforms for so long.  Config Transforms served us well for several years but at the end of the …

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Don’t use HostingEnvironment.ApplicationHost.GetSiteName()

September 3, 2014 / Uncategorized / 1 Comment

We have developed a diagnostics framework we use to get some quick diagnostic information about our applications like whether a database or web service can be made.  It’s a server/app configuration smoke test of sorts.  Over time we’ve added further capabilities to it like checking registry entries exist, file/folder permissions and web/machine.config values.  Our latest …

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