In my "myconfig" config profile transform for web.config i have this under appSettings:
<add key="my.config" xdt:Transform="SetAttributes" xdt:Locator="Match(key)" value="derp" />
When I msbuild with this transform the value is transformed correctly. Now I want to build an msdeploy package and transform this value at deploy time.
I drop this parameters.xml in my project root:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<parameters>
<parameter name="my.config" description="sdfsdfsdfsd" defaultValue="fart">
<parameterEntry kind="XmlFile"
scope="\\Web\.config$"
match="/configuration/appSettings/add[@my.config]/@value/text()" />
</parameter>
</parameters>
I build my package
msbuild app.csproj /T:Package /p:Configuration=myconfigprofile;PackageLocation=mydeploy.zip
I look at mydeploy.SetParameters.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<parameters>
<setParameter name="IIS Web Application Name" value="Default Web Site/myApp_deploy" />
<setParameter name="my.config" value="fart" />
</parameters>
Then I go into parameters.xml inside of mydeploy.zip and see its there too:
<parameters>
<parameter name="my.config" description="sdkflsdjfldfj" defaultValue="fart">
<parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="\\Web\.config$" match="/configuration/appSettings/add[@name='my.config']/@value/text()" />
</parameter>
</parameters>
looks good so far, then i deploy:
mydeploy.deploy.cmd /Y /M:server1
I look at web.config on the deploy server and the value is not transformed. I see no errors either, how do i debug this even?
When I run msbuild with parameters.xml present what magic happens there? How is the package preps to be able to transform web.config via parameters to web deploy?