If you want to do a better job of managing your configuration settings than just throwing random data into appSettings, you can extend your config file with your own custom XML and actually edit your ...

If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about. I love keeping information in my ...

SPI Dynamics – Some of the most common and dangerous application security vulnerabilities that exist in ASP.NET Web-based applications come not from the C# or VB.NET code that make up its pages and ...

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 ...

As a new years resolution, I vowed to start using .XML for my .NET applications' config files rather than using my home grown text config files. Private Sub LoadConfig() 'Load variables from config ...

When .NET’s Common Language Runtime (CLR) executes your application, it uses a series of XML configuration files to set the basic attributes of the execution environment. For example, if you’re ...

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 ...