Web Deploy 2.0 - Possible to prevent debug deploy?

Question

When developing an ASP.NET website with the Entity Framework, you can use an initialiser to drop and recreate the database when the model changes.

Take this example: I set up my project to drop and recreate the db under the Debug configuration, but not the Release.

I use Web Deploy 2.0, but, I see a potential issue, where I deploy to a production server, and forget to build the website with the configuration set to Release. Therefore the db may be dropped in production.

Is there a way to prohibit Visual Studio from publishing a website, based on certain criteria? eg destination server is X and the project is built in the Debug configuration

Answer 1

If you know the server name, you can write code to skip setting the database initializer in Global.asax

if(Server.MachineName=="skipServerName")
{//do not set the initalizer
}