web-config

web.config batch="false"

What is the purpose of adding the batch="false" in the compilation tag in ASP.NET 1.1? ...

When is web.config read?

I'm doing research for an article on the ASP.NET Pipeline, but none of the resources I've covered so far adequately explain when the machine level, and application level, and possibly even sub-application level, web.config files are read. Also, most of my reading has mislead me to look for default HTTP handlers etc. in machine.config, w...

App_Code and web.config

Let's say I have a class (MyClass.cs) in App_Code (using a ASP.NET web site, not project). There's no namespace assigned to the class. How can I get that class to be valid in the web site .aspx pages? WHAT do I need to put in the web.config file and WHERE do I need to put it? Do I <add assembly tag or do I <add type ?? Since the ass...

Multiple config files: Which one do the process read from?

Hi, I have a solution with multiple projects. In each project I've added a .config file with settings that affect the local settings. When I tried to read the settings for the database connection, I got some values which I don't know where they come from. This is the .config file of DatabaseLayer Solution: <configuration> <configSect...

Web.Config file in asp.net

Can u tell me exact practical view of configuration section of web config here is one example <configuration> <configSections> <section name="loggingConfiguration" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration.LoggingSettings, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=4.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, Pu...

In Web.config Is it possible to register all user controls in specified directory

Currently I'm registering every user control separately in Web.config <pages validateRequest="false"> <controls> <add tagPrefix="cc1" src="~/Controls/MyUserControl1.ascx" tagName="MyUserControl1"/> ... <add tagPrefix="cc1" src="~/Controls/MyUserControlN.ascx" tagName="MyUserControlN"/> </controls> </pages> But from...

Problem with Convert.ToDateTime in asp.net

Hi, I have an application that works without any problem in a spanish server. When i uploaded the application into the online server (an english windows), im getting exceptions (of type "input string is not a valid Datetime/Int32") with Convert.ToDateTime and Convert.ToInt32. Are any web.config line that could help me in this matter? ...

Multiple Web.Config files in ASP.NET web application

Dear Techies I have an ASP.NET web application where i am having multiple subrirectories in the root folder.in my root web.config, i have sessionMode as "StateServer" . So in one page of my subdirectory, i am not able to do serialization. If i change the SessionMode method to "InProc" , it will work fine. I want to maintain the web.conf...

Encrypting web.config using Protected Configuration pointless?

I must be missing something... So I am in the process of figuring out the best way of encrypting the database connection string and sql session state connection info in web.config. I quickly find a walk through on msdn explaining using protected configuration to encrypt parts of the web.config: MSDN walkthrough on using Protected Config...

Finding Active Visual Studio 2008 Connection Strings

Is there a simple way to figure out which connection strings are being used in my web.config. After a lot of LinqToSQL testing, I have a few extra connection strings sitting in my web.config that I'm sure aren't being used, but I'm not exactly sure which ones are/aren't. Any quick ways to single these out. The obvious solution is to p...

How can you change the name of the web.config file and have IIS read from the newly-named file?

Is it possible to configure an IIS site to read ASP.Net settings from a site OTHER than web.config? We'd like to have three config files in our codebase -- web-dev.config, web-test.config, and web-prod.config. Each IIS instance would be configured to read from their specific file. This way we have version control them all next to each...

asp.net managing multiple web.config files

Can anyone suggest a good way to manage multiple web.config files? For example, I have a development web.config I use on my localmachine named "localWeb.config" and then one I use for production called "prodWeb.config". I keep the .config extensions so no one can access them from the web server. localWeb.config will for example have a ...

Specifying exact path for my ASP.NET Http Handler

I generate an XML/Google sitemap on the fly using an Http Handler, so that I don't need to maintain an XML file manually. I have mapped my Http Handler to "sitemap.xml" in my web.config like this: <httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="sitemap.xml" type="My.Name.Space, MyAssembly" /> </httpHandlers> It works nicely. Now, www.mywebsite....

Translating an Apache .htaccess file to an IIS web.config

Hello there, I developed an application on my local using PHP, MySQL and Apache and it has a .htaccess file containing this: #Setting the default handler. DirectoryIndex home.do <IfModule mod_mime.c> #Supporting .do extensions AddType application/x-httpd-php .do </IfModule> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> #Removing .do file ex...

Read .net config files with Javascript (not javascript in an aspx page)

Is there an easy way to read settings from a (asp.net) web.config file using javascript within a html page? BTW I have found examples of passing config settings into javascript blocks within aspx pages e.g. <script type="text/javascript"> function ReadConfigSettings(){ var wibble = '<%=ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyCo...

How to register HttpHandler for all subfolders in Asp.Net?

I would like to register an HttpHandler to include all subfolders of a root folder regardless of how far down they are nested. I would have expected the behavior with the below code to do just that but in fact it only includes items directly in the root folder. <httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="root/*" type="HandlerType, Assembly" /...

How do you modify the web.config appSettings at runtime?

Hi, I am confused on how to modify the web.config appSettings values at runtime. For example, I have this appSettings section: <appSettings> <add key="productspagedesc" value="TODO: Edit this default message" /> <add key="servicespagedesc" value="TODO: Edit this default message" /> <add key="contactspagedesc" value="TODO: Edit thi...

Project (bin) folder path at compile time?

Is there a way to find out the project path at compile time? I want to create a unit test that tests if the configurartion in the default web.config (the one in the project folder). Mainly to reduce human error. I cannot rely on assembly locations at runtime (for the test), so I need to know where the project folder is to access web.c...

ASP.NET MVC web.config (multiple) issue

Hi, i'm having problems running my MVC project on my server. The main project on the server has it's own web.config file (1.0 versions referenced in configsections), while the 'virtual subproject' also has one (3.5 versions referenced). I receive the following error: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the proces...

web.config locked by w3wp.exe

Hi all. I've got a weird problem. It looks like if my IIS6 locked an application's web.config. If I try to edit it, Windows complains that the web.config is used by another process. Using Process Explorer I can see that the file is owned by w3wp.exe. Removing the virtual directory and stopping the website wasn't useful at all. Any idea...