I'm a new Windows programmer and I'm not sure where I should store user configurable application settings. I understand the need to provide a user friendly means for the user to change application settings, like an Edit | Settings form or similar. But where should I store the values after the user hits the Apply button on that form? ...
OK, so I don't want to start a holy-war here, but we're in the process of trying to consolidate the way we handle our application configuration files and we're struggling to make a descision on the best approach to take. At the moment, every application we distribute is using it's own ad-hoc configuration files, whether it's property fil...
Has anyone worked out how to get PowerShell to use app.config files? I have a couple of .NET DLL's I'd like to use in one of my scripts but they expect their own config sections to be present in app.config/web.config. @Steve/Sam: I had a horrible feeling those were going to be the answers. Thanks Kev ...
In a .NET project, say you have a configuration setting - like a connection string - stored in a app.config file, which is different for each developer on your team (they may be using a local SQL Server, or a specific server instance, or using a remote server, etc). How can you structure your solution so that each developer can have th...
Could somebody please do a rundown of how to programmatically encrypt a config-file in .NET, preferably in C#. What I would like to do is do some kind of check on an application's startup to see if a section is unprotected, and if it is, then encrypt it. This for both settings and connection-strings. Also if anyone could list the types...
Hey, I have been working with Struts for some time, but for a project I am finishing I was asked to separate Templates (velocity .vm files), configs (struts.xml, persistence.xml) from main WAR file. I have all in default structure like: application |-- META-INF -- Some configs are here |-- WEB-INF ...
I have the following code in a web.config file of the default IIS site. <httpModules> <add type="MDL.BexWebControls.Charts.ChartStreamHandler,Charts" name="ChartStreamHandler"/> </httpModules> Then when I setup and browse to a virtual directory I get this error Could not load file or assembly 'Charts' or one of its dependencies. ...
I have the following web config file. I am having some difficulty in retrieving the value from the "AppName.DataAccess.ConnectionString" key. I know I could move it to the AppSetting block and get it realtively easily but I do not wnat to duplicate the key (and thereby clutter my already cluttered web.config file). Another DLL (one to...
Does anyone know of a good example of how to expose a WCF service programatically without the use of a configuration file? I know the service object model is much richer now with WCF, so I know it's possible. I just have not seen an example of how to do so. Conversely, I would like to see how consuming without a configuration file is don...
From what I've seen the tag is ignored when hosting a WCF service in IIS. I understand that when self-hosting this is required but is this harmful or even used when operating under IIS? ex. <system.serviceModel> <service blah blah blah> <host> <baseAddresses> <add baseAddress="http://localhost/blah" /> </bas...
I am developing a .NET WinForms application which relies on user.config to store various useful settings such as intranet web service URLs. We would like to make it possible to import custom initial settings as part of the installation. The use case for this is if a company has 100 machines they want to install the software on, and the...
I already know how to: Load properties files into my Spring configuration using: <context:property-placeholder location="aaa/bbb/ccc/stuff.properties"/> Build properties objects on the fly using: <props><prop key="abc">some value</prop></props> But what I cant do, and would be really useful, is to have Spring load a properties fil...
I have an SSIS package that copies the data in a table from one SQL Server 2005 to another SQL Server 2005. I do this with a "Data Flow" task. In the package config file I expose the destination table name. Problem is when I change the destination table name in the config file (via notepad) I get the following error "vs_needsnewmetada...
I've used ConfigParser for quite a while for simple configs. One thing that's bugged me for a long time is the DEFAULT section. I'm not really sure what's an appropriate use. I've read the documentation, but I would really like to see some clever examples of its use and how it affects other sections in the file (something that really ill...
I have an application dependent on some internal web services, and so we want our development and staging configurations to point to the development and staging servers for the web services. Right now, this means manually editing my app.config file to point to the appropriate URLs. This is not only a hassle, but prone to human error ("...
A single Biztalk Server can have multiple Host processes. Is it possible to create an application config file for each host process? For example I would like to use Unity or log4net or whatever which needs such a configuration file. Edit: Thanks at David Hall. To elaborate a bit more: We have 12 Biztalk Servers in a group each running b...
Like most *nix people, I tend to play with my tools and get them configured just the way that I like them. This was all well and good until recently. As I do more and more work, I tend to log onto more and more machines, and have more and more stuff that's configured great on my home machine, but not necessarily on my work machine, or my...
I need to tweak some variables (only in a development setting) without having to restart IIS or anything (so I assume Web.Config is the wrong place to put them). Where is the easiest place to put about 500 config settings that have to be read for every request and written to, like I said, while IIS is running? EDIT: Like I said, this ...
I want to create an ini file to store some settings for my application. Is it a good idea to find where the jar file is located and create an ini file there? If yes, then how can I find the location of the jar file? But if you know a better solution for something like this, I would like to hear some of them. EDIT: I'm using mac and I ...
I'm trying to configure Windows Powershell to work with Visual Studio. Nothing fancy, just get things set so I can cl & nmake. I think all I need to do is edit the path setting(but I don't know how to set that in WPSH). ...