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by drivebyacct2 5214 days ago
I think people view this as too techy of a solution and I think people rely on their IDEs for this sort of thing too much, but after trying to automate my Azure deployments (local web, dev emulator, prod), I finally gave up and just resorted to having to manually comment/uncomment things in files and flex dropdown boxes across Visual Studio everytime I wanted to change environments. And I paid the 45-minute deploy time tax every time I forgot to change one of them when I deployed.

I'd have killed for a simple macro syntax to use within my config files. Hell, at one point I was actually (stupidly, one of the more futile tasks I've ever tried) editting the MSBUILD files by hand.