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SlowCheetah is an XML Transforms package for Visual Studio

SlowCheetah is an XML Transforms package that allows one to automatically transform an app.config (or any file) when F5 is pressed in Visual Studio.
One can have different transformations based on the build configuration.
For example, one could have different app settings, connection strings, etc. for a Debug configuration versus a Release configuration.

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How to get SlowCheetah to transform SQL files

The Microsoft Slowcheetah website states This package allows you to automatically transform your app.config (or any file) when you press F5 in Visual Studio. I have a SQL Server VS solution which requires configuration dependent users and…
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Use local transformed appsettings.json, but exclude it from deployment to Azure

When using SlowCheetah to transform appsettings.json you must use the option to Copy to Output Directory for the transforms to actually be transformed. This works just fine during local testing. The appsettings.json is transformed and copied to the…
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Insert into config if child node is missing

I am trying to use Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll to update an xml doc. I need to insert a new assembly element if one with the child element does not have a matching attribute name. Transform:
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slowcheetah.transformtask task failed unexpectedly.system.unauthorizedaccessexception

Getting following error when using custom json configuration file. Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error The "SlowCheetah.TransformTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.UnauthorizedAccessException:…
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Replacing with values read from file or generated from code?

In SlowCheetah, I would like to transform some elements of my config file not with hard-coded values in a transform file, but either with the contents of another file or (preferably) a value generated from code. For example, in the case of…
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SlowCheetah transform config

I am confused about where SlowCheetah looks to determine which transforms to add. When I go to build/Configuration Manager, I can add new profiles, then go to appsettings.json, right-click, Add Transform, and it will add a new transform (empty file)…
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Web.config is not transformed when published

I am trying to apply config transformation in one of my C# projects. I can see the transformation applied when I do "Preview transform" on my QA config file but when I do publish with QA profile, I can still see the default config (not the…
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SlowCheetah not transforming file after removing App.Config from Source Control

I have a solution with 5 projects and am using Visual Studio 2017. The latest version of SlowCheetah (v3.0.61) is installed and transformations in all but one projects are working (meaning the output files are getting transformed and created…
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SlowCheetah Could not write destination file access denied using TFS

I'm trying to use SlowCheetah to transform a Web.config and a App.config. Now when I check these files out for edit with TFS all works well. If however I do not check out for edit I get: Could not write Destination file: Access to the path …
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slowcheetah copys all reference dll's config file to target bin directory

I am new to SlowCheetah. Just installed it today as I need to add more config files to one of my console application to allow different settings for alpha test environment. So I added a transform featured the name 'alpha' and the transformation is…
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Perform Slowcheetah transformation only

Hi I have a bunch of csproj visual studio projects. These includedes alot of slowcheetah transformation files and alot of normal c# code files. In order to optimize my build process, I would like to build these projects with "some flag" to msbuild,…
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Why does my SlowCheetah configuration not work?

I'm developing a WPF application on VS 2017 Community. I've download SlowCheetah, so this is my App.Debug.config