Setting correctly your configuration for Web Deployment Projects VS08

Dec 2, 2007

ASP.NETASP.NET 2.0Visual Studio

I read on MSDN Forums that it is not possible to use other configuration than Release and Debug. This is wrong.

I am using it for Tech Head Brothers Portal, what you have to take care of is how you set your configuration. On the following picture you see how I defined a new Staging configuration and set the Web Deployment Project WebApplication.csproj_deploy to build using this configuration.

Then you are able to use it this way in your MSBuild:

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Staging|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <OutputPath>.\Staging</OutputPath>
    <EnableUpdateable>true</EnableUpdateable>
    <UseMerge>true</UseMerge>
    <SingleAssemblyName>THB.Portal</SingleAssemblyName>
</PropertyGroup>