ClickONce. Change app.config after Publish

[Alhambra Eidos Kiquenet]

Hi all,



I am working on a windows forms app. I do my development in a development
environment, and I have certain settings in my app.config like connection to
WCF services that point to my development WCF Services.



When I deploy my Application with ClickOnce, those settings are going to
have to be updated to their production values.



What is the recommended method for managing this? I can't imagine modifying
the app.config on production and then having to start over again with the
development values the next time i publish.



In production enviroment I haven't Visual Studio for do again new Publish.



Using ClickOnce VS 2005, I have Custom Prerequisites too



thanks in advance

 

[Marc Gravell]

ClickOnce isn't going to like you messing with any of the files in the
deployment. You could manage these settings outside of ClickOnce, but
that gets messy. I simply use a script that configures app.config for
the specific environment and uses MSBuild (Target = Publish, or
something similar) to build it. You don't need Visual Studio to build
the ClickOnce deployment.

Marc

 

[Alhambra Eidos Kiquenet]

Mister, how build the ClickOnce deployment without Visual Studio ?? I have
custom prerequisites to.

Thanks.

 

[Marc Gravell]

msbuild your.csproj /targetublish /property:Configuration=Release

(use the MSBuild from the appropriate framework directory - i.e.
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5
or
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

Re the pre-reqs - as long as the pre-reqs are known the the csproj it
should work... (I haven't tried).

Marc