
Let’s say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by anyone unless they login (or maybe even login as an admin). Using web.config (with Visual Studio 2012), transformations makes that very straight forward. I know because I just did that. I created a test site (say: http://test.siliconvalley-codecamp.com) and set up my publish to replace my normal anonymous authentication (allowing anonymous users) to one that denies anonymous users. Just as an aside, the reason I did this was I notice that google was indexing some of those pages even though my robots.txt file says to deny access to all robots. Apparently … Continue Reading

