Hey there,

I created my first nuget package for Umbraco. I realized afterwards the installation difference between nuget style vs umbraco style.

Anyway, I played with "config transform feature" during a nuget installation MSDN link here. This is really handy and helped me add additional information. In my case, an entry in config/dashboard.config.

The only problem being the umbraco xml config files don't have a default namespace. During the installation process, package manager would fail for that reason.

For the time being I added a default one such as the one below.

<dashBoard xmlns="https://our.umbraco.org/config/dashboard">

With such configuration, I can play with install/uninstall xdt features

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<dashBoard xmlns="https://our.umbraco.org/config/dashboard" xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
<section alias="DashboardIxcys" xdt:Transform="Insert" xdt:Locator="Match(alias)">
<areas>
<area>ixcys</area>
</areas>
<tab caption="Dashboards">
  <control>
    /app_plugins/ixcys/views/ixcys.dashboard.html
  </control>
</tab>    
</section>
</dashBoard>

This would require me to ask specifically to developpers to add such namespace beforehand installing my package.

So my question: wouldn't it nice to have some sort of default namespace for each xml configuration file ?

• This would help in this situation
• This is also a convention for XML to declare a default namespace

Thanks for your review and feedback