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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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 ...