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[QUOTE="Brennan Stehling, post: 1983342"]
Brett,

Why not use the hosts file?  It is located here...

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

And it would look like this.

127.0.0.1           localhost

192.168.11.11    dbserver1
192.168.11.12    dbserver2

192.168.11.21    webserver1
192.168.11.22    webserver2

These hostnames point to IP addresses and you could place the same
hosts file contents on each server.  But you can also use the same set
of names with different IP addresses.  You Staging and Testing servers
could point to Staging and Testing database servers and have the
settings in your application simply refer to the hostname you place in
the hosts file.

When you move the identical application to your Production server the
application will use the same names but connect to the alternate IP
addresses.  This is a good approach because the developers do not have
to be concerned with changes on the servers and instead just code
against a constant name.

Alternatively you could change the values in the appSettings of your
Web.config/App.config during deployment.  If you are running many
applications that means copying the deployment details to each
application and updating each application when a server/network change
is made.

Brennan  Stehling
[URL]http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/[/URL]
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