Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

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 ...

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SPI Dynamics – These days, the biggest threat to an organization’s network security comes from its public Web site and the Web-based applications found there. Unlike internal-only network services ...

Having a process to manage the settings in your application's Web.config file as you move from release to production is essential to ensuring your production Web site works correctly. One way to ...

In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its <appsettings> section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects. In ...

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# ...