Why is web deploy not using the correct web.config transform?

Question

I am trying to publish in VS 2012 using a build configuration called "CI" but when I execute the publish, the "Release" transform (web.Release.config) is used on web.config. How do I get web.CI.config to be applied instead? I thought this would be automatic.

I have conducted a few experiments which confirm this.

Has anyone seen this? Is this a (fixed) bug?

4 years later (using VS 2015) and still encountered this problem. The accepted answer worked for me. — Mike Baxter
– Mike Baxter, Commented Nov 12, 2018 at 17:23

sunil · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-01 16:49:36Z

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Sometimes configurations get messed up depending on how you added the configuration. To fix this, close visual studio, open your solution(.sln) file in an text editor. Under GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution section you might see something like this

{427E2FA3-1BAE-4A03-A712-C951ECEC45A3}.CI|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU {427E2FA3-1BAE-4A03-A712-C951ECEC45A3}.CI|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU

Notice that CI is equating to Release. Change the above to

{427E2FA3-1BAE-4A03-A712-C951ECEC45A3}.CI|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = CI|Any CPU {427E2FA3-1BAE-4A03-A712-C951ECEC45A3}.CI|Any CPU.Build.0 = CI|Any CPU

Reload solution in visual studio and try publishing again.

answered Jul 1, 2014 at 16:49

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Tevya Over a year ago

Absolutely the correct answer. However, I found a bunch of these mistakes (of the same pattern) and had to make sure I fixed all of them. Do you know if this problem survived into VS 2013 or was it fixed?

sunil Over a year ago

This happens in all visual studios. When you create a new configuration you get an option "Copy setting from" we usually end up choosing one of the existing configurations. That's when we get these weird setting in the sln file. I think if we choose the create empty option, this problem does not occur.

Eugen Timm Over a year ago

Thanks for the heads up. This is so typical Microsoft, it makes my head spin. I had to use the configuration manager to explicitly create a "Stage" configuration so that my web.stage.config is actually used during publish.

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