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 ...

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 ...

How many times have you deployed a .NET web application to a server and found that the server was missing MIME type mappings for file types you’ve used? Answer: every time. MIME is an internet ...

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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# ...