Questions tagged [slowcheetah]

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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Heat.exe (fro WiX library) not able to create task for SlowCheetah

I am referencing my .csproj within an script of heat.exe to generate output .wxs files but it gets to this error. heat.exe : error HEAT5313 : Build error during harvesting:…
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Web.config Builds? Should I be using SlowCheetah?

I have a web api project and I want have different web.config build when I switch to say "release" and build. In the past for window services I used on the app.config SlowCheetah and when I would build it would build whatever was selected in the…
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Can I prevent configs from getting deployed if there is no transform for the build target?

Is there a way with msBuild/Deploy to prevent a particular config file from getting deployed if it does not have a transform for the current build target? I am currently using SlowCheetah to do my transforms. Thanks! Chris
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Slow Cheetah stopped working in Visual Studio 2013

Suddenly, and inexplicably, Slow Cheetah has stopped working inside Visual Studio 2013. By "stopped working" I mean: The context menus no longer appear (ie Preview Transform, Add Transform) Config file transforms no longer occur when the project…
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How can I set the logger level with xml transformation. I am using SlowCheetah

I want to set the logger level value to "WARN" in the release log4net.config file. the value in the debug config file is set to "DEBUG"
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Slowcheetah installed but there's no transform option in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

I have a .NET Framework 4.5.2 console project, in Visual Studio 2015. I would like to have transforms for app.config. Very similar to Slowcheetah installed but there's no transform option But: When I try to install SlowCheetah - XML Transforms…
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SlowCheetah not Working with Octopus

I'm using SlowCheetah with the following configurations: Debug | TeamCity | Release. That means that I have these files on Visual Studio: Web.config Web.Debug.config Web.TeamCity.config Web.Release.config When I publish the application manually,…
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SlowCheetah transforms wrong element in my xml

I have a web.config file, which I want to transform using SlowCheetah. The relevant fragment looks like this:
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How do I transform an XML File when publishing?

I have an xml file that will have different values depending on the environment that it is deployed to. So far I have installed Slow Cheetah and it allowed me to do a transform on the xml file however I am not sure what syntax to use since it is…
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SlowCheetah - TeamCity - [restore] Unable to find version '2.5.15' of package 'SlowCheetah'

I have an issue with my TeamCity instance not retrieving version 2.5.15 of SlowCheetah from TeamCity. It restores all of my other nuget based dependencies just fine. I added SlowCheetah to one project in my Solution via the Nuget Package Manager…
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Slowcheetah XML transform for c# Windows Store / Metro / win-store app

I have installed SlowCheetah from the extensions gallery, then from nuget (then uninstalled and reinstalled from nuget). It works ! Almost ;) That is it is transforming the relevant files and copying them to the bin/[nameofconfig e.g. Debug /…
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How can you transform an app.config from a second transform specification?

How can you transform an app.config from a second transform specification? The existing SlowCheetah extension does a great job, but as far as I can see, it only works against the build configuration But web applications can have two transforms, one…
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SlowCheetah - Copy transformed file to output folder

In my ASP.NET MVC 5 project I have a folder "Config" with some config files including SlowCheetah transformations. I want to include this (transformed) files in my web.config using the configSource attribute:
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SlowCheetah: How to Include transformed files from a class library referenced in a a second project to that projects output?

Using SlowCheetah I have a custom.config file in my class library and I want this file transformed and included in the output of my console application which references it. Slow Cheetah transforms the custom.config into its own bin folder, and I can…
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Slowcheetah app.config pass parameters to transform file

I have following transform file app.Release.config to transform my app.config using SlowCheetah. How do I pass the BUILD_NUMBER from TeamCity so that the transform file replaces a particular xml elements value.
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