I have a virtual directory setup in one of my web apps that needs to not inherit the web.config of the main app so it can run on it's own. I am wondering how I can do this because right now when I hit it (mainwebapp.domain.com/virdir) it throws an error saying it can't find some dependencies that are listed in the main apps web.config (s...
Does anyone know if there is a way to "transform" specific sections of values instead of replacing the whole value or an attribute? For example, I've got several appSettings entries that specify the Urls for different webservices. These entries are slightly different in the dev environment than the production environment. Some are less...
So far I've migrated two ASP.NET MVC 1 solutions to MVC 2 and therefore kept my web.config almost the same, just changed the necessary stuff in it as documented in Release notes. Although I created a few new test MVC 2 webapss from scratch, until now I haven't really checked out the default new web.config. As I created a new empty MVC 2...
I'm wondering how other developers are handling source code conflicts for config files when system admins modify them in production. For example, if a system admin updates a appsettings key on the production server and then my team publishes out a project, it will overwrite that key. How do you handle config file updates in your organiz...
Hi, I've added a new custom section to the web.config of an application. I have also created a corresponding schema file for the new section definition. How do I include the schema reference in the web.config so that any developer editing the section has intellisense enabled when dealing with my new custom config section? I've seen ...
I'm just looking for some good tips for a generic web.config template I'm putting together. I found something similar here http://www.csharpfriends.com/Articles/getArticle.aspx?articleID=307 Has anyone come across a good web.config template or best practices? ...
This is what I see when I visit my web site. How do I instead get the Yellow Screen of Death so I know what the error is? I have set customErrors to "off". ...
<httpErrors defaultPath="/Views/Error/Error.htm" errorMode="DetailedLocalOnly"> <clear /> <error statusCode="404" path="/Views/Error/404.htm" /> <error statusCode="500" path="/Views/Error/500.htm" /> </httpErrors> Is the paths over here are valid? how can I use valid relative path? ...
When I deploy my web service, I get the following error: There is no build provider registered for the extension '.svc'. You can register one in the section in machine.config or web.config. Make sure is has a BuildProviderAppliesToAttribute attribute which includes the value 'Web' or 'All'. I found one thread (http://forums.asp.net/t/...
With VS2010's mandate that web.config be included in the project, how do we allow everyone to keep their own custom config file without getting into source control problems? Previously, we would simply leave web.config out of our project, allowing everyone to keep their own local version of web.config on their machine. We moved to VS201...
Hi, i've to display a messagge in my homepage (default.aspx) different for each "installation" of my web app. i would like to avoid to make a call to database to show this message.. so i've thougth to use web.config to store something like this <add key="WelcomeString" value="lorem ipsus <b>doloret sit amen</b>" /> But i've noticed ...
Hi all, I am in need of some help with an error message I get with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. I would like to create a gallery for my site so I downloaded the NotesForGallery from codeplex. I have added the reference into the project like it told me to in the installation instructions. The instructions then say Re...
Could some one help me on this problem. i have webservice , which reads data from configuration files. When i run this webservice from eclipse , i give absolute the path for these webservices of these configuration files , but when i shift the webservice in to server and run, it can not read the config file. so how can i solve this probl...
What is the best practice for encrypting the connectionStrings section in the web.config file when using LINQ TO SQL? ...
Hi, what is the suggested way to make web app see new configuration in web.config ? restart IIS stop/start app pool recycle app pool custom web page that does something in code? Thanks,Pawel ...
I can’t get the css, js and img loaded. I’ve been using the web.config out of this article: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1533/A-Note-on-mod_rewrite Please any suggestions… ...
Hi all, I've been developing an application using asp.net MVC, and I have some configurations that influences in process of render a view. For example, a user can choose (in an configuration of system) if a field should appear for a management of records in an area of the system. So, I have an class called AppConfiguration has some prope...
I know that in StructureMap I can read from my *.config files (or files referenced by them), when I want to pass specific arguments to an object's constructor. ForRequestedType<IConfiguration>() .TheDefault.Is.OfConcreteType<SqlServerConfiguration>() .WithCtorArg("db_server_address") .Equa...
I have had two instances of this problem, first on my local computer, now on the main site. Users can log in to the site, but it doesn't seem to recognize their roles. When I log in (which the database still recognizes as having the role admin), the code does not recognize it as being in the admin role. If there are other web.configs i...
Hi, I have multiple DLLs that are used to read/write data into my database. There is a presentation layer DLL and a data access layer DLL. I want these DLLs to share a set of the connection strings. My idea is to store the connection string in a seperate DLL in the external configuration file. I'm not sure whether it's a good idea an...