Previewing Config Transforms

27 Mar 2015 ~ 1 min read

Curiously, I didn’t know about this until recently and it is such a useful thing too.

You can preview the results of your configuration transformation from within Visual Studio.

First of all, right click the transform file and select “Preview Transform”

Then it will show you the differences between the original web.config file and the transformed file.

Hi, I'm Colin. I'm a software engineer with over 30 years of experience based in central Scotland, specialising in Microsoft technologies, initially with C++ and then in C#. I was a Microsoft MVP from 2007 to 2010 and a Code Project MVP from 2005 to 2009.