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Teamcity - Transform web.config and password.config upon build using MSBuild SlowCheetah 2.5.48

I'm using TeamCity (TeamCity Enterprise 10.0.4 (build 42538)) as a build server and SlowCheetah for config transformations. My solution consist of one ASP.NET Web API 2 project and one Console application.

For my console application the transformation works flawlessly for Release configuration. This is done via the Visual Studio runner set for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.

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However for publishing I use the MSBuild runner instead and here transformation does not work at all. I need to transform both a web.config file and separate password.config file. I'm using SlowCheetah 2.5.48. When publishing through Visual Studio in my development environment transformation works flawlessly as well.

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Solution

  • Solved it by adding two system properties, added system.PublishUrl to have separate folder from development environment but it is not needed.

    Needed parameters:

    • system.PublishProfile - set to the value of your PublishProfile (such as Release)
    • system.DeployOnBuild - set to true

    When this is done TeamCity will automatically pass these parameters to your Visual Studio build step and transformation now works.

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    After this I could remove the MSBuild step and only use Visual Studio Runner.