MSDeploy Parameters.Xml Generator

A tool to generate parameters.xml files for MSdeploy from existing web.config file, for from an app.config file for use with your own bespoke configuration transformation system..

Once the VSIX package is installed, to use right click on a web.config, or app.config, file in Solution Explorer and the parameters.xml file will be generated using the current web.config entries from for both configuration/applicationSettings and configuration/AppSettings. The values attributes will contain TAG style entries suitable for replacement at deployment time

If the parameters.xml already exists in the folder (even if it is not a file in the project) you will prompted before it is overwritten.

• Version 1.4 updated manifest to only support VS2013 & VS2015, added option settings to allow choice for format of the generated file
• Version 1.5 updated product to support VS2013, VS2015 & VS2015
• Version 1.6 Allows the delimiter placed around values to replace to be changed from its default of __
• Version 1.7 Added the option to generate the parameters.xml file from an App.Config file
• Version 1.8 Adds support for VS2019
• Version 1.9 Fixed warning about calling deprecated APIs in VS2019, this required dropping support for VS2013
• Version 1.10 Fixed issue with case of attribute in generated file

For more details see the wiki, also to download older versions