From: nospam@nospam.com   
      
   My preference has always been to make the switch for DEV/TEST/PROD occur   
   outside of the application.  If the application is responsible for   
   explicitly selecting it's own environment, there's the potential for stuff   
   to slip through testing and only rear it's head in production.  I use a   
   directory structure like what Anders posted.   
      
   I make sure the .net files are different between environments.  Someone   
   working in DEV should not be able to see PROD data whatsoever.   
      
   I do try to make it obvious when pointed to the non-production environments,   
   so folks will know what they're looking at.   
      
   --   
   Larry DiGiovanni   
      
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