Comments on: Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config

By: João Paulo

João Paulo — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:34:42 +0000

Really good info! Thank you for sharing it!

By: anil kumar

anil kumar — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:28:07 +0000

very good work

By: Paul Nersesov

Paul Nersesov — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:16:14 +0000

What if I need to have the ServerName as a reference from
appSettings to to connectionStrings?

add key=”ServerName” value=”GISWEBD.WORLD”
add name=”Conn1″ connectionString=”Data Source=ServerName;

By: Paul Nersesov

Paul Nersesov — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:10:50 +0000

Hi,
What if I need to have the ServerName as a reference from
to inside my web.config

Thank you.

By: Boryamba

Boryamba — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:13:53 +0000

This was actually what I was looking for, and I am glad to came here! Thanks for sharing the such information with us.

By: samsul siregar

samsul siregar — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:38:22 +0000

I finally understand about how to write connectionString in web.config, thank you..!!!

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By: Foon

Foon — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:53:50 +0000

Good article. However, I was wondering if there was any way that we could perhaps take this a step further. Let’s say I have a set of connection string config files for each environment, Dev, Test and Prod. Is there a way for me to set up the web.config with some kind of environment variable that I can change so that the configSource will be able to read the correct connection config file for that environment?
Example,
whatEnvironment=”Dev”

Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:36:47 +0000

Great info I can definitly use this.
Thanks.

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[...] public bool Blah() { using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection()) { SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("sproc", conn); cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; // add parameters cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@ID", SqlDbType.Int, int.MaxValue, ParameterDirection.Output)); conn.Open(); // *** GRAB output paramter here, how????????? cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); int id = cmd.Parameters["@ID"].Value; conn.Close(); } } http://pietschsoft.com/post/2005/12/28/ASPNET-20-How-to-get-a-specific-ConnectionString-from-the-WebConfig-by-name.aspx http://peterkellner.net/2008/02/23/webconfigbestpractice/ [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:54:12 +0000

Thank you very much! I have been fighting this dang web.config all day! Now, I can move forward…

By: PrashanthSpark

PrashanthSpark — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:28:41 +0000

How about when we want to encrypt our connection strings using security. Here I would rename Web.config.exe , in your above explaination , I would also need to rename weconnection.config.exe . Does this recognize!! Can we still use crypto encryption

By: Funka

Funka — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:15:22 +0000

Hello, thank you for the article. I have separated my “connectionStrings” section out from the web.config into a new file called db.config, which works great, exactly as your article details. However, I find that I can no longer programmatically encrypt the connection strings on the server using the ConfigurationSection.SectionInformation.ProtectSection(…) method. (Actually, it does encrypt it, but then throws when I attempt to Save the configuration.) To complete your “Best Practices” article, I wonder how this would be possible to save such change to the secondary file. Thank you!

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:30:54 +0000

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By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:29:51 +0000

hi, maybe you can help me?

the app is working fine, but now the smtp provider needs a login on the smtp server… how should this look?
I have used these lines, but I can nt get it to work…

in the appsettings in web.config:

please advice and thank you in advance,
Daniel, Sweden

By: Jas

Jas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:27:01 +0000

I am trying to split my main Web.config into 2 files like shown in best way. but getting my applcation stopped working and getting blank page. I am using .net 3.5. Does this “Best approach” works in .net 3.5?

By: John95

John95 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:04:05 +0000

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By: Ranjani

Ranjani — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:57:44 +0000

i’m getting following error with this.

The format of a configSource file must be an element containing the name of the section.

Can you tell me Why?

By: Jeekue

Jeekue — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:23:53 +0000

one more try…