Tokenization with Release Management

This article provides a demo of processing tokens as part of the build and release, using Release Management. Why use tokens? Tokenization comes in handy when you want to replace a value in your web or app.config file, automatically, based on the stage to which the release is happening. For example, my application uses an app.config file, which has a database connection string. Let us assume that DEVDB, TESTDB and PRODDB are the names of the database servers in Development, Test and Production environments...(read more)