Big Web.Config

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Big Web.Config

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Hello All,

I have a ASP.net 2.0 web application where the Web.Config has gone really

huge.

This creates a lots of maintanence and deployment problems.

Is there any way to break the web.config file into multiple file or

something like that?

Thanks...

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David

Registered User

Fri Sep 22 08:04:38 CDT 2006

Re:Big Web.Config

Curiously, what is "really huge" as far as size?

Also, what's making it a large file? If you have a large amount of AppSettings,

you can benefit from moving those values (especially if they change frequently)

to a database table. Remember, modifying your web.config will restart your

web application--a much more noticable update than simply updating a database

table of application settings.

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David Longnecker

Web Developer

Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

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Hello All,

I have a ASP.net 2.0 web application where the Web.Config has gone

really huge.

This creates a lots of maintanence and deployment problems.

Is there any way to break the web.config file into multiple file or

something like that?

Thanks...

Cowboy

Registered User

Fri Sep 22 08:14:28 CDT 2006

Re:Big Web.Config

In 2.0 you can have additional configuration files linked to the config

file. I do not have an example readily available, however. If I get a bit

more downtime, I will find a link.

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Gregory A. Beamer

MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think outside of the box!

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"Navnit" <Navnit@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

Quote

Hello All,

I have a ASP.net 2.0 web application where the Web.Config has gone really

huge.

This creates a lots of maintanence and deployment problems.

Is there any way to break the web.config file into multiple file or

something like that?

Thanks...

Navnit

Registered User

Sat Sep 23 01:48:01 CDT 2006

Re:Big Web.Config

Thank Gregory, David, i'll try it out.

Thanks again...

"David R. Longnecker" wrote:

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Hmm, cool. I've never seen this before.

Google finds:

odetocode.com/Articles/345.aspx,">odetocode.com/Articles/345.aspx, a blog post by K. Scott Allen.

From Scott's example:

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

2 <configuration>

3 <system.web>

4 <compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true" />

5 </system.web>

6

7 <appSettings file="testlabsettings.config"/>

8

9 </configuration>

One note he mentions:

"One caveat to this approach is that the ASP.NET runtime does not detect

when the external file changes. Youâ??ll need to make changes to web.config

itself for ASP.NET to launch a new version of the application with all changes

in effect."

Thanks for the tip, Gregory!

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David Longnecker

Web Developer

Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

>In 2.0 you can have additional configuration files linked to the

>config file. I do not have an example readily available, however. If I

>get a bit more downtime, I will find a link.

>

>*************************************************

>Think outside of the box!

>*************************************************

>"Navnit" <Navnit@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

>news:2E479CD8-295A-4066-9F7F-42F56AF1CDE0@microsoft.com...

>>Hello All,

>>

>>I have a ASP.net 2.0 web application where the Web.Config has gone

>>really huge.

>>

>>This creates a lots of maintanence and deployment problems.

>>

>>Is there any way to break the web.config file into multiple file or

>>something like that?

>>

>>Thanks...

>>

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