Hi Harini,
If you are not making code changes that require redeploying the whole application -- maybe you are electing to just re-GAC a pipeline components DLL or something similar -- and you want to change the Excel settings spreadsheet on the server to drive a bindings file token replacement, you can certainly do so. The file is in a nasty XML format, so you'd really want to use Excel to make the changes. If you change SettingsFileGenerator.xml in the installed location (\Program Files\MyApp\1.0\etc.), then it will be used with your changes for any undeploy/redeploy/deploy operation until you uninstall the MSI. The side effect is that uninstalling the MSI may not delete SettingsFileGenerator.xml because it is not identical to what the MSI originally installed.
Thanks,
Tom
If you are not making code changes that require redeploying the whole application -- maybe you are electing to just re-GAC a pipeline components DLL or something similar -- and you want to change the Excel settings spreadsheet on the server to drive a bindings file token replacement, you can certainly do so. The file is in a nasty XML format, so you'd really want to use Excel to make the changes. If you change SettingsFileGenerator.xml in the installed location (\Program Files\MyApp\1.0\etc.), then it will be used with your changes for any undeploy/redeploy/deploy operation until you uninstall the MSI. The side effect is that uninstalling the MSI may not delete SettingsFileGenerator.xml because it is not identical to what the MSI originally installed.
Thanks,
Tom