You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

The .NET Framework makes configuration settings a breeze with XML-based configurations. It also supplies the means necessary for accessing these settings through Collection classes. The actual ...

Are you tired of manually configuring IIS sites (adding Web sites, application pools, virtual directories and so on)? Use C# and the Microsoft.Web.Administration Namespace to simplify your life (or at ...

We have a bunch of apps that all use the same db connection strings, which are hosted in a file in a shared location (let's say c config). All the app.configs for our apps are hard-coded to point to ...

Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.8, the latest version of the company’s application development framework for Windows. The update brings a number of bug fixes, security patches, and ...

Take advantage of configuration providers and dependency injection to configure your ASP.Net Core applications in a loosely coupled manner Microsoft’s ASP.Net Core is an open-source, cross-platform, ...

Simply put, can DLLs have config files? When I create a DLL that has some code that accesses settings in a config file, the DLL uses the config file of the EXE that references it. Why is that? Also if ...