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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Unable to Remove Web.Config Nodes using Transform

I have a web.config containing rewrite rules like this: For a particular deployment configuration, I want to remove the node…
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How to use the new VS 2010 configuration transforms and apply them to other .config files?

I have setup some configuration transforms in my web.config for my connectionStrings, etc. But I have separated out some areas of my web.config into separate files, ex) appSettings.config. How can I configure Visual Studio and MSBuild to perform…
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How to transform config files with slow cheetah on build in a web project

So what I want to accomplish is transform all config files on the build. Web.config App.config ....config.xml In the project files they all look like this:
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Automated Slow Cheetah Build methods

I don't want to install Slow Cheetah on all the build servers. We are using Slow Cheetah for config transformations and it is working perfectly fine. It generates multiple app.config files and we make changes to them as desired. We have setup…
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slowcheetah to transform value of an element in config file

I know how to change the value of attributes with SlowCheetah, but how would I change the value of the element. app.Debug.config:
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SlowCheetah: Transformed files from class library project not copied to the referenced projects

Scenario: I have a class library project with custom .config files. Build Action for these config files are set to 'Content' and 'Copy Always'. This library project is then referenced in at least 4-5 console applications within the same solution.…
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SlowCheetah not transforming web.config on build

I installed the SlowCheetah package via nuget and added transform files for my web.config based on Build config. However, on building, the web.config does not get transformed. I checked my project file and did see entries for SlowCheetah…
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Transform user settings with slowCheetah

I am trying you change my default user configuration according to the build profile with slowCheetah, however I am not able to find the right way to use it
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Can partial config files linked to a web.config via configSource be transformed in a web project?

Looking for some help from anyone that's worked with SlowCheetah to transform config files under a web project. We're finding that partial config files referenced from the web.config are not being transformed. For example, we've included…
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How do I get an msbuild task to do config transforms on a collection of files?

I am trying to transform all of the web.config files in a project I have, here's a my tree structure: Transform.bat Transforms ConfigTransform.proj Web.Transform.config Website web.config Views web.config There's more web.config files, but…
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SlowCheetah app.config transforms on multiple connection strings

I would like to be have multiple DB connection strings in my app.config file with the same server name. I am using SlowCheetah to perform transforms based on different configurations. Here is what I currently have, which works fine. app.config…
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Using SlowCheetah Config Transforms on Web.config in a 3.5 Web Forms app

I downloaded SlowCheetah into an old .Net 3.5 web forms application in order to add transforms to web.config. I've used SlowCheetah with Windows Services and Console Applications to transform app.config with success in the past. In those cases, the…
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Can I include web.release.config.transform in my NuGet package?

We're using SlowCheetah config transforms to manage configuration, so in each of my web apps I have: > Web.config > Web.debug.config > Web.release.config I want to include an appSetting transform element in a NuGet package that will be added…
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Web.config transformation with SlowCheetah and ASP.NET Web site project

I'm trying to use SlowCheetah XML Transforms with an ASP.NET Web site project (not an ASP.NET Web Application Project) in Visual Studio 2010. When I right click on the Web.config file in my ASP.NET Web site project, I don't see "Add Transform" item…
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tracking NullReferenceExceptions in sitecore

i'm trying to track a NullReferenceException that shows up on sitecore 6.5 at loading any webpage: [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Sitecore.Diagnostics.Log.Error(String message, Exception exception,…
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