The other day I came across an alternative way of accessing web.config configuration in some article. It allowed to: provide path to web.config file modify web.config configuration at runtime like: config.MySetting = "new value"; load web.config from another web application in the same IIS (I'm not sure about it) work with configurat...
I modified my web.config to add a custom binding in order to increase the buffer and message size, and it seems like in creating the service element explicitly, it has somehow broken the reference to my behavior element. When I try to run my web service from VS using the WCF Test Client, or I go to the service page, I get the error: M...
Hi, This is driving me crazy. I written a simple ASP.NET MVC 1.0 application I published this onto my local machine and onto the production server. Both the local and production connects to the same 3rd database server. The application works fine on the local machine but not on the production server. On the production server I get an e...
I would like to have a variable defined in my web.config that I can use in multiple places within my web.config file (and other config files). It's probably easier to explain by example ... web.config <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="AuthServiceEndPoint" value="any_old_name_i_like"/> </appSe...
Hi everybody, I've a question regarding SqlCacheDependency configuration. Every resource I've read requires the developer to define the polled databases into web.config. This is not a good scenario for our application that connects to different databases, because we don't want to edit web.config each time we add / remove a database. We ...
I've got my e-mail health monitoring working fine (removed here) but when I try to get it into SQL Server it fails. When I run the stored procedure (aspnet_WebEvent_LogEvent) manualy it works OK. But no...
Hi, Is it possible to insert a connection string into a web.config file if it isnt there? Would this work? The connection string is for a APS.NET user login and create account database. ...
Hi, I have set up a small SQL Server database for users to login and also create accounts. There is a problem with the connection string though. Whenever I use the connection string below in the web.config file I get a server error page and cannot view the website. However when I take out this connection string I am able to view the web...
Hello.. ASP.NET 4.0 and C# I'm using the default membership provider with the SqlExpress DB that the ASP.NET had created for me, but I want to modify some settings. so I went to the web.config file to search for the and to change setting there, but I didn't find them! I don't want to create a new provider. I just want to modify the...
In the team Im working in we have a big product with many wcf web services and some web sites which use the services. We are just about to upgrade to vs 2010 and Im looking at if we should start using the new config transform functions in vs2010. We have several different environments which needs different web.configs (database connect...
I tend to make a lot of folders and when doing OO I put the Models in a folder called Models then under that I have BLL, DAL, OBJ Instead of writing at the top of all of my files using MyApp.Models; I would like to put this in the Web.Config if possible. I am new to .net so I am not sure if you can or even if this is a good idea. ...
Hey Everyone, Im working on a legacy app that has this logic in its code that I cant modify unfortunately. I have the proper settings in the web.config and was wondering if i list the proper SMTP server would the web.config settings take care of the credentials? If not what options do i have for sending email out with this code? str...
Hello, I have several ASP.NET applications in virtual folders (already configured as applications, and with different application pools), but I want to install another ASP.NET application that will redirect to one of the virtual folders according to some criteria (from database and cookies). All the applications in the virtual folders ...
Windows HTTP Server API provides mechanisms for URL Registration and Reservation so that request queues can be setup by processes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364483(v=VS.85).aspx. And the URL matching is done by longest matching URL Prefix. With support for strong wild cards '+' and weak wild cards '*'. I get that IIS do...
I have customer specific settings in a custom.config which links back to web.config. What I want to accomplish is to load the settings from appsettings section in custom.config into setup.aspx page. The settings will be loaded into textbox, dropdown list etc. After the user makes changes then save it back to custom.config. Is this possi...
In a web application I added some dlls as the references, because of that references some of the section settings has been added to my web.config file by default. Now I got the newer versions of those dlls, Now I just removed those dll's and added the newer dll's references.The web.config file's section header is not yet changed to the ...
What is Section header in web.config file? Why do we need this? I generally need to know about the sectionHeader tag in web.config file and its usage. I don't have any problem in that. ...
Hello I have web.config file from some application. It is located in some random location. I have to parse this web.config file (get all keys names and values). I tried to use ConfigurationManager class in order to get those data however, it throws exception when I try to get some Sections (Configuration->GetSection('section name')). It...
Hello, whats a good way to test the settings (especially keys) in web.config? I think its not really testable with NUnit, or is it? Example: <add key="SomeKey" value="SomeValue" /> Thanks for ideas :-) ...
Good day all. I've took out some .net hosting with web fusion but are fighting to get answers regarding their security set up. Specifically i'm used to full trust enviroments as i work for a large utilities company. Usually i would encrypt some / all of my web.config, this i cannot do on their medium trust IIS7 enviroment, nor will t...