Storing A Variable Collection Of Strings In Web.Config?
Aug 25, 2010
I would like to store a collection of strings in the web.config. This collection would vary in size over time. I would like to be able to pull all of the strings in the collection into an array or collection in code. (.Net 4, asp.net)
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I could use appsettings with the strings all in one value but I would like to seperate it out for organizational reasons. Not using the key/value pair complicates things a bit. I am now getting a message that states "you can't have duplicate elements in a section"
What is the best way to store/access connection strings and most importantly the URLs for different environments (dev, validation, production). I'm using ASP.NET 1.1.
For a web application developed on ASP.NET, we are finding that for user control files (ascx) we are returning long strings as a result of method calls. These are embedded in the ascx pages using the special tags <% %>When performing memory dump analysis for the application, we find that many of those strings are not being garbage collected. Also, the ascx pages are compiled to temporary DLLs and they are held in memory. Is this responsible for causing the long strings to remain in memory and not be garbage collected ?
I have this program in which I am trying to store a collection of values into a list and session
Example:
valueCollection = (List<Values>)Session["Value"];
I want to do the front end in a way which will show a table with each row showing a label and textbox. This would be too simple to do obviously but I want it to show 4 rows of the table by default and then the user can select "add another" this will then add another row onto the table with a label and textbox exactly similar to the 4 default. Everytime the user selects "add another" the table increments by 1.
but as it changes the value in the Database also, so its creating a problem for future. Now I need to change the text after being inserted into the database.
How Can We Have two Connection Strings In Web.Config And Switch Betweeen Them In Code Behind? when i add two connention strings in web.config so an error appears that tells us u cann't add two connection strings in web.config. i want the upper job because i have 2 databases and i want transfer data from another to the other one.
I nearly completed my project and was about to put it out to be run. My boss was going to make a minor change to the connection string and then put it out there. In short, my application was running off a dummy database, while the real database was out there. I have the connection string comiple and built through out my project in the aspx pages and the cs pages.
However, my boss wants to be able to change a single connection string in a single place, essentially in the web.config file. I'm fine with that, but I don't know how to access the connection strings stored in the web.config files. How do you do that? So far, I've only created a new connectionstring in my code on each page. I've told him you could do a "find and replace" on all the files but he doesn't want to do that. In short, he wants to change the connection string the same way he does all the other projects he works with, php, vb and etc.
how do you access the connection strings stored in the web.config file programmatically?
I am helping a club create a site that has a password protected "members only area". I have never done anything password protected. I used VWD and created the user names and passwords. Apparently using the AspNetSqlProvider. The site and password protected area work great when tested locally. The problem is when the site is uploaded to the hosting company, the login area will not work. I found that I had to create an SQL database in the appropriate area of the hosting company. The login still won't work. I am thinking that I have to create a connection string in the web config file. The problem is - when I tried that the site wouldn't work when I tested it locally. I really need lots of help with this part.
When a use is logged in (Through open-id) we are creating a session variable named "UID" and storing the unique user-id in it. Later we are checking the session to see if the user is logged in. I think this is not the right way, but I could not force the team to change this, as I cannot show how this implementation can be cracked. why (If yes) this implementation is bad?
I have an ASP.NET project which is pretty n-tier, by namespace, but I need to separate into three projects: Data Layer, Middle Tier and Front End.
I am doing this because...
A) It seems the right thing to do, and
B) I am having all sorts of problems running unit tests for ASP.NET hosted assemblies.
Anyway, my question is, where do you keep your config info?
Right now, for example, my middle tier classes (which uses Linq to SQL) automatically pull their connection string information from the web.config when instantiating a new data context.
If my data layer is in another project can/should it be using the web.config for configuration info?
If so, how will a unit test, (typically in a separate assembly) provide soch configuration info?
I have two connection strings (both in Web.Config: CS_Local and CS_Production) for my DBML (Linq to SQL). In my Global.Asax/Application_Start I run some production preparation methods if the request is non-local (!HttpContext.Current.Request.IsLocal). Within that part, I'd also like to change the current connection string used by my DBML from the standard CS_Local to CS_Production.
I want to apply some better security measures to an existing web application. Currently, my connection string contains the user name and password in plain text. I'm also using a custom membership provider, which stores user names and passwords in the web.config file as plain text [URL] I would like to secure this information using an algorithm such as SHA1.
I have seen the examples on how to switch between connections strings for development and production enviroments. My web.config also calls out a connection string for <roleManager and membership><providers>. Can this be setup to switch between the two connection strings?
I would like to use both of the connection strings in the same web.config file how can I do this I tried this yesterday it worked I called it a night, then this morning I got this. The error being on line: 10 Parser Error Message: The entry 'ApplicationServices' has already been added.
Line 8: <add name="ApplicationServices" Line 9: connectionString="Data Source=Mysource;Initial Catalog=travelatlantic;User ID=MyID; Password=MyPassword;" /> Line 10: <add name="ApplicationServices" Line 11: connectionString="Data Source=MySource;Initial Catalog=travelatlantic2;User ID=Myid; Password=MyPassword;" /> Line 12: </connectionStrings>
I am creating a website that allows users to login to their gameserver remotely and send / receive commands. The connection happens via an UDP socket and requires simply the IP of the gameserver, and a password.
On my website, users can add servers to their accounts, where the server IP and password are stored in a database. Then they can connect to any of their servers, which creates a new Socket object and connects to it using the IP and password of that server.
This Socket object, embedded in an object that also stores the server IP and password, is stored in a Session variable when the user connects, and is retrieved on every page. For example, there's a page where the user can view a list of the players on the server (and kick/ban them), a page with server settings, a page with messages, etc. All these pages require the Socket connection to get their information (they send a certain command and parse the response). When I need to send a command via the socket, I need to send the password of the server each time (otherwise it does not work). My question now is: how secure is this? The password of a server is sensitive information*, but I am storing it in a session variable and sending it (using the Send command of the Socket object) to the server.
i think the Session variable is stored on memory on the server, so I don't think so, but I'm really unsure about these kind of things and I'd like to be certain that my website is secure. Well, I think it will never be 100% secure but I want it to be at least not worth the effort for someone to hack the password. If it takes a lot of trouble then people wouldn't bother, but I don't want to find out that people's passwords are being thrown out on the street (so to speak) and that my website is completely insecure...
Im storing the user details in a session variable(session["userid"]) while login.
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Im using the session variables in other forms ,there im checking the session variable using the following code.
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In this form im having 'export to excel ' button.When i click this button session variable becomes empty and redirected to the login page.(Im having this problem in IE only but in FF it works fine).
I am storing Datatable in Session variable in my project. Is it good practise to do so? The datatable has 20 fields and can run into 1000+ records. Will it hamper my application performance?
I'm building a web system and various clients will have alternate text for default instances throughout the site. One place is the main nav but there are others. The default may be "project" but they may want to call it "event".I'm heading down the road of calling all the terminology settings (there's a list of about 15) and creating an ArrayList that has the id and either the default or their replacement as the items in the ArrayList.I've also got a enum key list called TermKey that has the defaults and the corresponding ID number.
Throughout the code I'll reference TermKey.Project and then do one of these things that I see as options. 1-pull the text from the session (if the client has set it to "event" then the text "event" will be waiting for the call there)2-pull the text from the database every time I need it.3-pull the client's list each time a page loads.Some thoughts on the impact each way or if there is a best practice for
Consider my dataTable contains 10,000 rows and i want to know the pitfall of storing datatable in a session variable... I want to use it until a new row has been added...What type of session mode should i use?
There are a bunch of hardcoded strings in a ASP.NET application.
eg. string constSetting = "XYZ";
There are a LOT of them. Is there a tool/plugin for Visual Studio 2008 to refactor it in such a way that the constant string goes into web.config and the above line gets replaced by the retrieved string from web.config app settings?
What it best location to store various configuration settings of a web site modules. Creating class (that inherit ConfigurationSection) that map the settings in web.config file?Or creating some DAL and BLL clases that work with database?
