Slow cheetah Add Transform does not appear

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Swati Gupta picture Swati Gupta · Jun 16, 2017 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I want to use Slow Cheetah for transform .config file. Currently I am using Visual Studio 2017 and for this I have installed Slow Cheetah 2.5.48 from nuget but 'Add Transform' does not appear when I right-click on config file.

Answer

Himanshu Singla picture Himanshu Singla · Jul 17, 2018

The issue is, only adding nugget would not suffice. You need to install slowcheetah from visual studio marketplace. Following are the steps:

  1. Install SlowCheetah from Tools > Extensions and Updates
  2. Restart VS, allowing for the VSIX installer to run
  3. Create new C# App (.NET Framework). (In my case, it started to work on existing app also.)

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