# VS2008 DataDude and conditional deployment

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/vs2008-datadude-and-conditional-deployment/860
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/vs2008-datadude-and-conditional-deployment/860 "2008-06-02T04:13:08Z")
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### Author: ![class-a](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/class-a/32/95_2.png) [@class-a](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/class-a)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/vs2008-datadude-and-conditional-deployment/860/1 "2008-06-02T04:13:08Z")

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I was really struggling to get some variables into VS2008 DataDude. We have developers on WinXP, Win Vista and have to deploy on Win2008. It's for a website and WinXP has ASPNET as IIS user and the rest has "Network Service". This was a problem and I believe I fixed it.

I've blogged about it here and I hope I can help other people as well.  
I hope I don't offend people with this, I don't want to plug my weblog, but it seems nonsense to post it both here and on my weblog. And as it's not 100% finalbuilder related, I found my blog more approriate.

[http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/dennis/archive/2008/06/02/vs2008-datadude-and-conditional-deployment.aspx](http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/dennis/archive/2008/06/02/vs2008-datadude-and-conditional-deployment.aspx)

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### Author: ![angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/angus)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/vs2008-datadude-and-conditional-deployment/860/2 "2008-06-03T01:24:23Z")

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Hi Dennis,   
  
 That’s great, we’re very happy to see you blogging about uses of FinalBuilder. :-). No problems at all with mentioning it here.   
  
 I only have one nitpick from your blog post, and it’s a common misconception - you don’t need to use the Define Variable action to add a new variable to your project. Define Variable is really only used when you want to define a completely dynamic variable (ie you don’t know the _name_ of the variable before the project runs.) It’s an extreme “edge case.”   
  
 We strongly recommend using the Edit Variables dialog in the FB IDE, under Tools -\> Edit Variables.   
  
 Apart from that, it’s great to see.   
  
 Regards,   
  
 Angus