Build config specific versions of the manifest file is a cool idea (debug / release / client) but it means you have to maintain duplicate versions of the file.
What would be more awesome, is to make it work like web.config files, where the build specific ones just use xdt (transformations) to transform the original file. This should be relatively easy to do because there are open source libraries available for running these transformations. Good info on those here: http://gigi.nullneuron.net/gigilabs/transforming-config-files-and-xml-documents/
Build config specific versions of the manifest file is a cool idea (debug / release / client) but it means you have to maintain duplicate versions of the file.
What would be more awesome, is to make it work like web.config files, where the build specific ones just use xdt (transformations) to transform the original file. This should be relatively easy to do because there are open source libraries available for running these transformations. Good info on those here: http://gigi.nullneuron.net/gigilabs/transforming-config-files-and-xml-documents/