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Windows Azure Connection Strings - How to Handle Local vs. Production?

I'm in the process of deploying some windows azure projects and I've noticed that it's a bit of a pain to constantly switch my role configuration settings from using LocalStorage to actually use my Windows Azure Storage connection strings.

For local development, I want to use this:

UseDevelopmentStorage=true

But for deployed apps, I want to use something like:

DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=myAccountName;AccountKey=blah

I end up either changing my role's configuration connection strings just before I deploy, or if I forget to do that, I'll attempt to go into the Windows Azure portal and change them (but that usually happens after I watch my role instances start and stop over and over).

I feel like I'm missing something basic, but is there a straight-forward way to have the deployment process switch my role connection settings to use the production storage accounts instead of local storage?

Solution

  • I've answered a similar question here:

    Visual Studio 2010 can apply Debug or Release transformations to Web.config, but what about the Azure settings?