MVC Application Level Soft Coded Settings?
Oct 7, 2010
I am working on a ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Multi-Presentation web application which would use a common codebase to support different websites. These websites would differ in following aspects:
Each website will have their own headers, footers, images, CSS etc (I guess website specific Master Pages)
Some of the UI elements could be different based on soft-coded settings at website level
What is the best approach to handle these requirements? Should I be storing these website level soft-coded settings in Database or multiple config files? I might have to provide a admin UI to manage these soft-coded settings. How do I access these settings in different layers (MVC, Services, Repositories etc) of my application?
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AspNetHostingPermissionLevel GetCurrentTrustLevel() {
foreach (AspNetHostingPermissionLevel trustLevel in
new AspNetHostingPermissionLevel [] {
AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Unrestricted,
AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.High,
AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Medium,
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Get current ASP.NET Trust Level programmatically):
but for C#, and would like to have it for VB.NET. Any chance of someone expert in both VB.NET and C# that can translate this to VB code?
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Private Function GetCurrentTrustLevel() As AspNetHostingPermissionLevel
For Each trustLevel As AspNetHostingPermissionLevel In New _
AspNetHostingPermissionLevel() {AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Unrestricted, _
AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.High, AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Medium, _
AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Low, AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.Minimal}
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Catch generatedExceptionName As System.Security.SecurityException
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End Try
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Next
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End Function
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New AspNetHostingPermission(trustLevel).Demand()
and
Continue Try
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