You can also register your ASP.NET Web User Controls in Web.Config?

submitted by crpietschmann 1 month, 24 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — In Tip#8 we saw how to create a Web User control, register a Web User Control and use the Web User control in your page. Note that VS added a @Register directive right at the top of the page on drag drop of the user control on to your page. But in future if you want to move the location of your User controls you will be forced to change the Register directive in multiple places depending on how many pages you have used the User Control. This could be a pain. This can be easily solved by moving the registration of the user control to your Web.config file with the following entry, so that any change in location can be updated only at one place. read more...

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How to prevent web.config inheritance in ASP.NET child virtual directo

submitted by jamesewelch 4 months, 19 days ago

jamesewelch.wordpress.com — If you add a new ASP.NET web site as a virtual directory/application under an existing ASP.NET web site, then you’ll probably be having some problems with web.config inheritance. Even if the sub-webapp is physically separate, just being in a virtual directory located within another webapp will result in many of the settings being inherited and messing up your sub-webapp. read more...

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Securing Configurations

mnour.blogspot.com — Have you ever wanted to provide a level of protection to your values in the configuration files? Using aspnet_regiis will help you in encrypting the configuration section(s) in the config files. The executable resides in: "<windows_root>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<framework_version>" and It was common to be used in installing ASP.NET on IIS. However, you can use it as well in encrypting/decrypting the configuration files. read more...

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Managing ASP.NET Dev, Staging and Production Connection Strings

weblogs.asp.net — If you work with a large number of applications then you know what a pain it can be to manage multiple web.config files and multiple connection strings for development, staging/test, and production databases. This article discusses an alternative that allows connection strings to be consolidated into a single file that can be shared across mutliple applications. It also shows how connection strings can be loaded dynamically based upon a URL which can greatly simplify getting correct connection strings for dev, staging, and production databases. read more...

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Using SingleTagSectionHandler Instead Of appSettings

vaultofthoughts.net — As an alternative to appSettings you can use SingleTagSectionHandler to store settings in a web.config file. Learn how. read more...

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Working With Web.config And App_Code

vaultofthoughts.net — Few things to know when working with Web.config and App_Code directory. What is the assembly name for App_Code classes, how to use controls defined there etc. read more...

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Factoring Configuration

published 1 year, 6 months ago, submitted by crpietschmann 1 year, 6 months ago

nikhilk.net — A little known attribute, configSource, enables some level of configuration factoring and splitting for the ever-growing web.config... read more...

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ASP.NET 2.0 Override debug=true in web.config by machine.config

published 1 year, 8 months ago, submitted by crpietschmann 1 year, 8 months ago

codemodule.net — Deploying web applications can become a painful task if you have to check for a number of settings that you have to modify your code to make it work in production environment. There are chances that developers might miss something if there are a lot of deployment pushes. Features like debugging, tracing, error message display could be a big performance issue if they are turned "on" the production environment. read more...

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