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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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App.Config Transformation for projects which are not Web Projects in Visual Studio?

For Visual Studio 2010 Web based application we have Config Transformation features by which we can maintain multiple configuration files for different environments. But the same feature is not available for App.Config files for Windows…
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Web Config Transform not working

In a .NET MVC 3.0 Application I have the following configuration in appSettings: web.config …
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The "SlowCheetah.Xdt.TransformXml" task could not be loaded from the assembly

After installing Slow Cheeath (v. 2.5.10.3) to two projects in my solution, I am receiving the following error: "The "SlowCheetah.Xdt.TransformXml" task could not be loaded from the assembly…
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Using msbuild I want to update a config file with values from teamcity

I have some XML that looks something like this: IsTestEnvironment True …
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Web.config is not transformed when debugging code

I have a main Web.config file, and under that there is a Web.Test.config, Web.Development.Config etc. When I preview the transformation via SlowCheetah on the Test config, it appears to transform the values correctly. When I switch my build…
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SlowCheetah not transforming file on build

I have a project I am trying to use SlowCheetah for. I have created my config file (Test.web.config) and all the transformations I want to use (Debug_Mock.config, Debug_SQL.config, Release) in my Build configuration I have a post-build event is…
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app.config Transformations

I'm a huge fan of the addition of web.config transformations in Visual Studio 2010. See also Scott Hanselman's recent talk at MIX2011. What sucks is that this functionality (appears at least) to only be available to web projects. In our solution we…
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VS 2010 Web.config transformations for debugging

I’m a fan of the new VS 2010 Web.config transformations. I use this feature for deployment purposes and wondered if it is possible to use them for debugging too. I think of using them in the IDE: I want to create different built configuration (with…
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Context menu does not display "add transform" in console job when using slow cheetah

I assume this is a simple fix considering I don't see any other posts about others having this issue. I am using VS2012 and I added slowcheetah 2.5.10.3 to the project using the nuget package installer. I have tried opening a new console…
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Using MsBuild to generate customized MsDeploy manifest (Package target)

I am using Web Deploy to package and deploy web sites for my product. In particular, I have two different projects in my solution I use this method to deploy. I have a third project in the solution (a windows service) that also needs to be…
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Tools for previewing configuration file transformations

Are there any tools or Visual Studio 2010 extensions which allow me to view the output of a configuration file transformation short of having to publish the entire project? Is the process which performs the transformation directly…
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Transform app.config for 3 different environment

I need to be able to transform my app.config file using msbuild. I can transform the file if it is called app.DEBUG.config or app.Release.config, but I cannot if I add one called app.PROD.config. Using regular XDT transforms msbuild recognizes…
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How to transform log4net config like web.config?

From my .csproj file: Designer log4net.config …
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App.config replacements for unit tests

my continuous integration server (TeamCity) is configured to run all the unit tests in our app on build. Prior to running those tests, i need to change some of the appSettings to make them valid for our CI server. I'm achieving something similar for…
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Slow cheetah Add Transform does not appear

I want to use Slow Cheetah for transform .config file. Currently I am using Visual Studio 2017 and for this I have installed Slow Cheetah 2.5.48 from nuget but 'Add Transform' does not appear when I right-click on config file.
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