I am trying to transform all of the web.config files in a project I have, here's a my tree structure:
- Transform.bat
- Transforms
- ConfigTransform.proj
- Web.Transform.config
- Website
- web.config
- Views
- web.config
There's more web.config files, but the idea is that this will find all of them and apply the same config transform on them.
I've taken a few hints from a blog post I found but I get stuck in the last step, the actual transformation. Also there's a bit of a rough part in the middle that I don't really like (I don't quite understand what I'm doing and I'm obviously doing it wrong). Here's where I am so far:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Transform" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<UsingTask TaskName="TransformXml" AssemblyFile="Tools\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll"/>
<PropertyGroup>
<SitePath>..\..\Website</SitePath>
<WebConfigTransformInputFile>$(SitePath)\Web.config</WebConfigTransformInputFile>
<WebConfigTransformFile>Web.Transform.config</WebConfigTransformFile>
<OutDir>..\N\N\</OutDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<_FilesToTransform Include="$(SitePath)\**\web.config"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Transform">
<MakeDir Directories="@(_FilesToTransform->'$(OutDir)%(RelativeDir)')" />
<TransformXml Source="@(_FilesToTransform->'$(OutDir)%(RelativeDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
Transform="$(WebConfigTransformFile)"
Destination="@(_FilesToTransform->'$(OutDir)%(RelativeDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
</Target>
</Project>
My Transform.bat looks like this:
%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe %CD%\Transforms\ConfigTransform.proj
So when I call the batch, the appropriate directories get created. However, as you can see I've had to be a little creative with the OutDir, making it ..\N\N. For some reason, if I don't do this the OutDir path will be exactly the same as the input directory. So I obviously need to change something in MakeDir but I'm not sure what.
The real problem comes when it starts to do the transforms. I've tried to keep the TransformXml Source parameter like this or like so:
@(_FilesToTransformNotAppConfig->'%(FullPath)')
The latter gives me an error "Could not open Source file: The given path's format is not supported." and the former gives me this output:
Build started 30-4-2012 14:02:48.
Project "D:\Dev\transform\DoTransforms\Transforms\ConfigTransform.proj" on node 1 (default targets).
Transform:
Creating directory "..\N\N\..\..\Website\Views\".
Transforming Source File: ..\N\N\..\..\Website\Views\Web.config;..\N\N\..\..\Website\Web.config
D:\Dev\transform\DoTransforms\Transforms\ConfigTransform.proj(32,2): error : Could not open Source file: Could not find a part of the path 'D:\Dev\transform\DoTransforms\Website\Views\Web.config;\Website\Web.config'.
Transformation failed
Done Building Project "D:\Dev\transform\DoTransforms\Transforms\ConfigTransform.proj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
Build FAILED.
To summarize my questions:
- How do I avoid the path issue for the OutDir? I've fiddled with multiple paths but I can't get it right.
- How do I get the TransformXml task to accept multiple files in the Source attribute?