msdeploy corrupts connection string passwords

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I have a web application that I am deploying with msdeploy, but at the moment we have an annoying post deployment step - we need to go and patch the passwords in the connectionStrings section.

The password, as entered in IIS manager, is "ABCD%ABCD" However, after msdeploy has finished its work, the password part of the string has become: ABCDÂ«CD

Clearly, msdeploy is getting confused by the % sequence in the password.

If I enter a password with " in it, IIS manager inserts "

Now '%' is not one of the characters with a predefined xml entity definition, so, how am I to enter this password so that msdeploy won't corrupt it?

David Martin · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-01 07:33:11Z

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I believe the issue is that the percent character is used to identify environment variables, try using double percent to 'escape' the percent.

e.g. "ABCD%%ABCD"

answered Oct 1, 2012 at 7:33

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