microsoft/slow-cheetah

Tooling for XML and JSON file transforms on build from Visual Studio and MSBuild

slow-cheetah

Transformations for XML files (such as app.config) and JSON files.

Includes two primary components:

1. NuGet package that adds an msbuild task to perform transforms on build.
2. Visual Studio extension for generating and previewing transforms.

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Supported Platforms

• Visual Studio 2022: SlowCheetah VS 2022 Extension (version 4.x)
• Visual Studio 2015-2019: SlowCheetah VS 2015-2019 Extension (version 3.x)

Supported File Types

SlowCheetah supports transformations for XML files, specified by XDT and for JSON files, specified by JDT. Transform files created by the extension follow these formats.

Features

Perform transformations of XML and JSON files on build per configuration and publish profiles.

Quickly add and preview transformations to a file in the project.

How to Perform Transformations