When the following profile section is in my web.config, the first page request fail with FileNotFoundException and a bunch of error coming from the compiler (from the look of the stack trace). When the properties section is removed, everything works again (until I try to reference something from the Profile of course). The rest of the website is pre-compiled, assembly per page, not-updatable.
The problem has only been reproduced on one machine-- the same build worked on other highly similar machines.
Am I missing anything obvious?
<profile>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider"
connectionStringName="ConnectionString"
applicationName="OIWebApps"
type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"/>
</providers>
<properties>
<group name="UI">
<add name="MasterPage" defaultValue="Horizontal.master"/>
<add name="Theme" defaultValue="Default"/>
<add name="IsSessionWarningEnabled" defaultValue="True" type="System.Boolean"/>
<add name="UseTelerikMultilineTextBoxes" defaultValue="True" type="System.Boolean"/>
<add name="FontSize" defaultValue="Smaller" type="System.String"/>
</group>
</properties>
</profile>
I see "UseTelereikMultilineTextBoxes". Could it be that a file needed for Telerik is missing on this machine?
It failed to compile because of a missing native .dll It was extremely hard to identify because the page that was executing didn't directly use the .net dll that depended on the missing native .dll, and even more confusingly, only some pages raised the compile error instead of being raised on all pages.
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I have been digging for hours and keep coming up with information about .NET Core, yet hardly anything about .NET 4.7 full framework. I figured out how to add User Secrets to the main project of my Web API solution. I get the basic secrets.xml file where I need to to either store my database username and password or my connection string. Every post I find talks about the changes you need to make to web.config. However nothing shows what to do with my connection string, how to format it, in the secrets.xml file. I could create a name/value pair but that does not seem to do anything, my app cannot connect to the database.
I have this in my Web.config:
<configBuilders>
<builders>
<add name="Secrets" userSecretsId="5c65f7eb-a7e1-46cc-bff4-a526678005f2" type="Microsoft.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilders.UserSecretsConfigBuilder, Microsoft.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilders.UserSecrets, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral" /></builders>
</configBuilders>
<connectionStrings configBuilders="Secrets">
<add name="ShopAPDbConnectionString" connectionString="" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
My secrets.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<secrets ver="1.0">
<secret name="ShopAPDbConnectionString" value="Server=SQLDEV01;Database=ShopAP; Integrated Security=True;" />
</secrets>
</root>
How do I properly format and get this to work?
Here is what I was able to get to work based on https://github.com/aspnet/MicrosoftConfigurationBuilders
Web.config
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="configBuilders" type="System.Configuration.ConfigurationBuildersSection, System.Configuration, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" restartOnExternalChanges="false" requirePermission="false" />
</configSections>
<configBuilders>
<builders>
<add name="Secrets" userSecretsFile="~/../../../SecretsTest/secrets.xml" mode="Greedy" type="Microsoft.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilders.UserSecretsConfigBuilder, Microsoft.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilders.UserSecrets, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add name="Json" jsonFile="${JSONConfigFileB}" optional="true" type="Microsoft.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilders.SimpleJsonConfigBuilder, Microsoft.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilders.Json, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</builders>
</configBuilders>
<!--...-->
<appSettings configBuilders="Secrets">
<!--...-->
</appSettings>
<!--...-->
<connectionStrings configBuilders="Json">
<add name="DefaultConnection" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="dummy.value.required" />
</connectionStrings>
<!--...-->
</configuration>
secrets.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<root>
<secrets ver="1.0">
<secret name="usersecret1" value="dogodog" />
<secret name="usersecret2" value="secretbar" />
<secret name="JSONConfigFileB" value="C://Users//xxx//Documents//xxx//xxx//SecretsTest//settings.json" />
</secrets>
</root>
settings.json
{
"DefaultConnection": "Server=666.66.666.6;Database=BigToe;User ID=FireBall;Password=BunniesAreSoft",
}
Both your files look fine - pretty much exactly the same as mine.
How did you create your secrets file? Did you use right-click on the Web project and Manage User Secrets?
That will create a file in a folder location in %APPDATA% that should be picked up when you hit F5 in Visual Studio (Debug > Start Debugging). However, it will not be seen by IIS if you compile and then browse to localhost. Even if you change the App Pool Identity in inetmgr to run under your account, and set Load User Profile - it still will not find it.
To find the correct location for the secrets for this case, run your web app and obtain the result of
string appdata = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);
and copy the secrets file into the matching sub-folder Microsoft\UserSecrets\(guid)\
e.g.
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSecrets\5c65f7eb-a7e1-46cc-bff4-a526678005f2\secrets.xml
you may need to one-off obtain access in Explorer, and create the UserSecrets folder and below.
Remember to update both copies if you edit it in future.
Make sure the only file in your UserSecrets folder (C:\Users...\UserSecrets{guid}) is the secrets.xml file. I was messing around and had a secrets.json file in there (along with the secrets.xml file) and it wouldn't load my secrets.xml file. After I removed the json file, it worked fine.
I am attempting to do the same thing, but unfortunately I think this is only for appSettings when it comes to .Net Framework/Web.config.
I'm new to Application Insights.
The details in this ticket relate to a specific API, written in C# with .NET Framework (not Core), running in IIS on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter virtual machine.
We have a lot of the Application Insights metrics for this API coming through as expected, including some custom telemetry we coded ourselves that has been extremely useful.
But a few key things such as the requests per second and the failed requests per second are not coming through.
I've done some digging, and I've found some trace information in the Application Insights logs for that specific API that look like they might be related, but I'm not sure what to do with them.
Here's one example:
AI: Error collecting 3 of the configured performance counters. Please check the configuration.
Counter \ASP.NET Applications(??APP_W3SVC_PROC??)\Requests/Sec: Failed to perform the first read for performance counter. Please make sure it exists. Category: ASP.NET Applications, counter: Requests/Sec, instance _LM_W3SVC_4_ROOT
Counter \ASP.NET Applications(??APP_W3SVC_PROC??)\Request Execution Time: Failed to perform the first read for performance counter. Please make sure it exists. Category: ASP.NET Applications, counter: Request Execution Time, instance _LM_W3SVC_4_ROOT
Counter \ASP.NET Applications(??APP_W3SVC_PROC??)\Requests In Application Queue: Failed to perform the first read for performance counter. Please make sure it exists. Category: ASP.NET Applications, counter: Requests In Application Queue, instance _LM_W3SVC_4_ROOT
Another example:
AI: ApplicationInsights configuration file loading failed. Type 'Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.StatusMonitor.SdkSourceTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.StatusMonitor' was not found. Type loading was skipped. Monitoring will continue.
Here's the ApplicationInsights.config file for the website in question:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ApplicationInsights xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ApplicationInsights/2013/Settings">
<TelemetryInitializers>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector.HttpDependenciesParsingTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.DependencyCollector" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.AzureRoleEnvironmentTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.AzureWebAppRoleEnvironmentTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.BuildInfoConfigComponentVersionTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.WebTestTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.SyntheticUserAgentTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web">
<!-- Extended list of bots:
search|spider|crawl|Bot|Monitor|BrowserMob|BingPreview|PagePeeker|WebThumb|URL2PNG|ZooShot|GomezA|Google SketchUp|Read Later|KTXN|KHTE|Keynote|Pingdom|AlwaysOn|zao|borg|oegp|silk|Xenu|zeal|NING|htdig|lycos|slurp|teoma|voila|yahoo|Sogou|CiBra|Nutch|Java|JNLP|Daumoa|Genieo|ichiro|larbin|pompos|Scrapy|snappy|speedy|vortex|favicon|indexer|Riddler|scooter|scraper|scrubby|WhatWeb|WinHTTP|voyager|archiver|Icarus6j|mogimogi|Netvibes|altavista|charlotte|findlinks|Retreiver|TLSProber|WordPress|wsr-agent|http client|Python-urllib|AppEngine-Google|semanticdiscovery|facebookexternalhit|web/snippet|Google-HTTP-Java-Client-->
<Filters>search|spider|crawl|Bot|Monitor|AlwaysOn</Filters>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ClientIpHeaderTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.OperationNameTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.OperationCorrelationTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.UserTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.AuthenticatedUserIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.AccountIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.SessionTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.StatusMonitor.SdkSourceTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.StatusMonitor" />
</TelemetryInitializers>
<TelemetryModules>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector.DependencyTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.DependencyCollector">
<ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>
<!--
Requests to the following hostnames will not be modified by adding correlation headers.
This is only applicable if Profiler is installed via either StatusMonitor or Azure Extension.
Add entries here to exclude additional hostnames.
NOTE: this configuration will be lost upon NuGet upgrade.
-->
<Add>core.windows.net</Add>
<Add>core.chinacloudapi.cn</Add>
<Add>core.cloudapi.de</Add>
<Add>core.usgovcloudapi.net</Add>
</ExcludeComponentCorrelationHttpHeadersOnDomains>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.PerfCounterCollector.PerformanceCollectorModule, Microsoft.AI.PerfCounterCollector">
<!--
Use the following syntax here to collect additional performance counters:
<Counters>
<Add PerformanceCounter="\Process(??APP_WIN32_PROC??)\Handle Count" ReportAs="Process handle count" />
...
</Counters>
PerformanceCounter must be either \CategoryName(InstanceName)\CounterName or \CategoryName\CounterName
NOTE: performance counters configuration will be lost upon NuGet upgrade.
The following placeholders are supported as InstanceName:
??APP_WIN32_PROC?? - instance name of the application process for Win32 counters.
??APP_W3SVC_PROC?? - instance name of the application IIS worker process for IIS/ASP.NET counters.
??APP_CLR_PROC?? - instance name of the application CLR process for .NET counters.
-->
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.PerfCounterCollector.QuickPulse.QuickPulseTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.PerfCounterCollector" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.DeveloperModeWithDebuggerAttachedTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.UnhandledExceptionTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.UnobservedExceptionTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.WindowsServer" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.RequestTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.Web">
<Handlers>
<!--
Add entries here to filter out additional handlers:
NOTE: handler configuration will be lost upon NuGet upgrade.
-->
<Add>System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler</Add>
<Add>Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Runtime.Tracing.RequestDataHttpHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.StaticFileHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Optimization.BundleHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Handlers.TraceHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.Services.Discovery.DiscoveryRequestHandler</Add>
<Add>System.Web.HttpDebugHandler</Add>
</Handlers>
</Add>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ExceptionTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.AI.Web" />
</TelemetryModules>
<TelemetryChannel Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel.ServerTelemetryChannel, Microsoft.AI.ServerTelemetryChannel" />
<TelemetryProcessors>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.PerfCounterCollector.QuickPulse.QuickPulseTelemetryProcessor, Microsoft.AI.PerfCounterCollector" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel.AdaptiveSamplingTelemetryProcessor, Microsoft.AI.ServerTelemetryChannel">
<MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>5</MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>
</Add>
</TelemetryProcessors>
<!--
Learn more about Application Insights configuration with ApplicationInsights.config here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=513840
Note: If not present, please add <InstrumentationKey>Your Key</InstrumentationKey> to the top of this file.
-->
<InstrumentationKey>**removed**</InstrumentationKey>
<ResourceID>**removed**</ResourceID>
<StatusMonitor>2.3.0</StatusMonitor>
</ApplicationInsights>
The host machine is running Windows Server 202 R2 Datacenter as part of an Azure VM.
Because I'm new to this, I'm not really sure where to start. I've tried googling the error messages but I'm not coming up with much that seems useful to my current situation.
Any pointers in the right direction greatly appreciated.
What is the version of the SDKs you are using? And did you add application insights SDK to the application itself, or used Status Monitor to instrument the app at runtime?
The error about PerfCounters indicates that the SDK encountered error trying to collect the counters mentioned. Are you seeing other counters like Process CPU, Memory etc? If yes, then the issue is with Asp.Net related counters only. Can you use a tool like perfmon and validate that these counters do exist in the machine?
You can remove the following line from Ai.Config to get rid of the error about StatusMonitor initialier - I am not sure what does it do, but it cannot explain why you are missing some data.
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.StatusMonitor.SdkSourceTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.AI.StatusMonitor" />
To really explain why you are not seeing 'Requests' related metric, need to see web.config of your application. You may be hitting this issue:
https://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet-server/issues/569
Please share some more information - sdk version, web.config, how onboarded etc and I am try to help more.
I am having an issue with properly configuring ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry in my ASP.NET Web Application. According to this article, I configured Azure AD sign-on to my app. Everything appears to work fine, but Visual Studio 2013 gives me a config warning (blue underline) on the configuration section for trustedIssuers so I decided to find a fix. This gentleman describes an alternative way of doing it that lines up with the VS2013 config warning. But alas, it does not work for me. IIS Express gives me an error when I try to run it.
Any thoughts on what I have mixed up? I'm guessing there is a version issue with .NET 4.5/4.0 or something of that nature but I can't find it.
This does not work...
(Server Error: WIF10112: The only supported element inside 'issuerNameRegistry' is 'authority'. Found element 'trustedIssuers'.) NOTE: Bottom of error page reports:
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.34009
<issuerNameRegistry type="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry, System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry">
<trustedIssuers>
<add name="[MYNAME]" thumbprint="[MYTHUMB]"/>
</trustedIssuers>
</issuerNameRegistry>
This does work, but gives a compile time warning (expected 'trustedIssuers')...
<issuerNameRegistry type="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry, System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry">
<authority name="MYNAME">
<keys>
<add thumbprint="MYTHUMB" />
</keys>
<validIssuers>
<add name="MYNAME" />
</validIssuers>
</authority>
</issuerNameRegistry>
Visual Studio uses XSD schemas to validate the config as far as I am aware. They usually reside in a folder like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Xml\Schemas
The schema for the ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry is (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.identitymodel.tokens.validatingissuernameregistry(v=vs.115).aspx):
<system.identityModel>
<issuerNameRegistry type='derived from ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry'>
<authority name='someFriendlyName'>
<keys>
<add thumbprint='caseInsensitiveString'/>
<add symmetricKey='Base64Encoded bytes' />
</keys>
<validIssuers>
<add name='issuer1'/>
<add name='issuer2'/>
</validIssuers>
</authority>
</issuerNameRegistry>
</system.identityModel>
The schema for the ConfigurationBasedIssuerNameRegistry is (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.identitymodel.tokens.configurationbasedissuernameregistry(v=vs.110).aspx):
<system.identityModel>
<identityConfiguration>
<issuerNameRegistry type="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ConfigurationBasedIssuerNameRegistry, System.IdentityModel">
<trustedIssuers>
<add thumbprint="thumbprint" name="name" />
</trustedIssuers>
</issuerNameRegistry>
</identityConfiguration>
It is likely the XSD files that visual studio uses only reference one or the other. The easiest way to find it is to search the XSD files for the string vs:help="configuration/system.identityModel/issuerNameRegistry"
You can update the schema if you wish so you no longer get the blue underlined text. I'm only using Visual Studio 2012 so I can't confirm this will work for you.
I think I figured out the issue but I'm not sure why. For some reason, the system must be picking up a previous version of "System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry". If you can explain why, I'll be happy to mark you as answer.
<issuerNameRegistry type="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry, System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ValidatingIssuerNameRegistry">
<trustedIssuers>
<add name="[MYNAME]" thumbprint="[MYTHUMB]"/>
</trustedIssuers>
</issuerNameRegistry>
Should Be...
<issuerNameRegistry type="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.ConfigurationBasedIssuerNameRegistry, System.IdentityModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089">
<trustedIssuers>
<add name="[MYNAME]" thumbprint="[MYTHUMB]"/>
</trustedIssuers>
</issuerNameRegistry>
I have created a new project in ASP.NET MVC 4. Normally you just hit F5 and it runs as a semi empty project. Instead I'm getting:
Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'MySql.Web,
Version=6.7.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d' or
one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
This makes no sense. I have no such entries in my config file and dont event want to use MySql. What has changed in MVC 4? What do I need to do?
I guess your machine.config file has been changed, I suggest take a look at that in either of these locations:
32-bit
x:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[version]\config\machine.config
64-bit
x:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\[version]\config\machine.config
as suggested by Petoj in this post
Where Is Machine.Config?
I was having the same issue ..adding following tags to web.config file worked for me :
<membership defaultProvider="SimpleMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="SimpleMembershipProvider"
type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleMembershipProvider, WebMatrix.WebData"
/>
</providers>
</membership>
<roleManager defaultProvider="SimpleRoleProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="SimpleRoleProvider"
type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleRoleProvider, WebMatrix.WebData"
/>
</providers>
</roleManager>
How does one go about transforming the audienceUris and federatedAuthentication elements in the microsoft.identitymodel configuration section using the standard visual studio web.config transforms?
For the development environment, we have all the subdomains postfixed with a '-dev' along with special localhost port numbers, for example: realm="https://client-dev.domain.com:444". Today the main web.config reflects this but ideally we would like to move this setting to Web.Debug.config and in the Web.Release.config we would like to specify the proper audience and realms sans the '-dev' postfix and the local port settings. However, attempting to put xdt:Transform="Replace" in the microsoft.identitymodel element inside the Web.Debug.Config results in this warning:
The 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform:transform' attribute is not declared.
and of course runtime failures (not being able to find servicecertificate for example).
Here's the microsoft.identitymodel sections:
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="microsoft.identityModel" type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Configuration.MicrosoftIdentityModelSection, Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</configSections>
<microsoft.identityModel>
<service>
<applicationService>
<claimTypeRequired>
<claimType type="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/privatepersonalidentifier" optional="false" />
<claimType type="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress" optional="false" />
</claimTypeRequired>
</applicationService>
<serviceCertificate>
<certificateReference x509FindType="FindByThumbprint" findValue="NNNNNNNNNN" storeLocation="LocalMachine" storeName="My" />
</serviceCertificate>
<certificateValidation certificateValidationMode="None" />
<audienceUris>
<add value="https://url/" />
</audienceUris>
<federatedAuthentication>
<wsFederation passiveRedirectEnabled="true" issuer="https://url/" realm="https://url/" requireHttps="true" />
<cookieHandler requireSsl="true" />
</federatedAuthentication>
<issuerNameRegistry type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.ConfigurationBasedIssuerNameRegistry, Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">
<trustedIssuers>
<add thumbprint="NNNNNNNNNN" name="https://url/" />
</trustedIssuers>
</issuerNameRegistry>
</service>
</microsoft.identityModel>
<configuration>
Existing solutions that don't work:
1) Same issue was raised here but no proper response. The RemoveAll and Insert doesn't work:
Web config transform on microsoft.identityModel - 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform' attribute is not declared
2) Also, tried to manipulate the namespace as suggested on this thread and this doesn't work either:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/9ededb66-3e34-4bba-8e20-a2cc6025f0f9
3) configSource looked promising but again does work when specified in the microsoft.identitymodel element.
I get:
Warning 1 The 'configSource' attribute is not declared.
http://blog.andreloker.de/post/2008/06/16/Keep-your-config-clean-with-external-config-files.aspx
Any help will be appreciated! Thanks.
After a lot of trial and error, I resorted to using XMLPreProcess by Loren Halvorson to auto-generate the correct Web.config from a TemplateWeb.config as part of the pre-Build event for each project.
Although I would have liked Visual Studio's attempt at this to work for developers, alas, time is of money and its time for me to move on. Needless to say, it's broken in the SQL Azure SDK as well because the transforms only occured when you publish a site. In the latest Azure SDK, that is no longer the case and hence transforms stopped working as well. Oh joy!
Here's a link to the excellent tool, I think, a must-have for every ASP.NET developer:
http://xmlpreprocess.codeplex.com/