Oleg Sych

This article provides an overview of configuration files in .NET applications, discusses common problems of managing environment-specific settings, reviews different approaches for managing configuration files and introduces .config file transformation in Visual Studio 2010. The downloadable code example and shows how to use it not only with web application projects, but also with regular app.config files.

This article describes the new capability offered by Visual Studio 2010 to perform template-based code generation at build-time, with the help of a set of MSBuild extensions available as part of the Visualization and Modeling SDK.

This article describes an approach for using a Team Foundation workspace to create a hot-fix for a Team build created in the past without introducing untested side effects and without adding complexity of branching and merging the source code.