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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...