http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/2012/12/10/editing-sqlcmdvariable-nodes-in-ssdt-publish-profile-files-using-msbuild.aspxPublish profile files are a new feature of SSDT database projects that enable you to package up all environment-specific properties into a single file for use at publish time; I have written about them before at Publish Profile Files in SQL Server DataenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/2012/12/10/editing-sqlcmdvariable-nodes-in-ssdt-publish-profile-files-using-msbuild.aspx#48428Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:33:12 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:48428RKong<p>A suggestion from my coworker led me to simply use a FielUpdate. I use RegEx on the publish.xml files and do a simple find and replace.</p>