If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about. I love keeping information in my ...

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Tweaking the settings in your configuration files in ASP.Net can provide a nice performance boost. These files include machine.config and web.config. The web.config file is application-specific and is ...

Moving from a test to a production environment can be tricky. Here's where the Web Deployment Projects add-on comes in handy. You're probably using the web.config file to hold the connection strings ...

App.config and Web.config files are a great way to add flexibility to your .NET application without having to modify code in the future. They also allow clients or end users to make configuration ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organization will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

I've been all over Google trying to find a solution to this but the results so far have not worked and/or I'm missing something obvious. So the basic problem is. I have an existing inherited C# ...