The below is the custom config files
<Test>
<testA att1="A" att2="B" att3="C"/>
<testB att1="A" att2="B" att3="C"/>
</Test>
If I send testA then the class will return all testA attributes i.e att1, att2 and att3 values.
testA, testB will vary.. that means in future we will add another two tags i.e testC, testD and so on.
My application will be returned all the attributes based on my inout (testA...).
I used the article Creating a Flexible Configuration Section Handler to create a Flexible Configuration Section Handler in my application.
I also saw this article entitled Encrypting Custom Configuration Sections on the OdeToCode blog, on how to encrypt portions of a web.config file.
From the first article, we have this web.config code.
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I have many Connection strings in my web.config file. I also have a "dataConfiguration" setting in the same file which specifies what database my app connects to.
How do I read the "defaultDatabase" setting / section from the, see below xml file.
<configuration>
<configSections> [code]....
Is it possible to have separate config files for specific sections of the web.config? Specifically I'd like to move IIS 7's rewrite section out of the web.config and into it's own config file.
View 3 Replieswhat are the different sections in web.config file?
View 1 RepliesI am getting the error "An error occurred loading a configuration file: Access to the path is denied."
When I am in VS 2010, I can Encrypt as long as I run as administrator. Code as follows:
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My problem is I need to run this in IIS. What is stopping me? It's a permission problem, but what permission. I am running IIS 7.5 on Windows 7. This is happening on my production server as well. Same error.
I have downloaded template for my web site and made it a master page after few weeks I have started my work on it but now it is giving me error.
Sections must only appear once per config file. See the help topic <location> for exceptions.
and showing that line 69 this error is in the given below code.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
I would like to encrypt the connectionstrings section in my web.config file using the : ASPNET_REGIIS utility However I'm running Windows 7 pro, that is without any IIS.
Is it possible for me to do it.
The path (on my local pc) to the website containing the web.config file is like this:
C:UsersmyUserDocumentsVisual Studio 2010ProjectsmyWebsitemyWebsiteWeb.config
I'm trying to programmatically encrypt the connectingstrings section of my web.config, using the below code, which I have gotten from here.
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The problem is that nothing happens when I click encrypt.
This is my code.
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And this is the web.config
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Has I understand is the section should be encrypted, but it never happens.
We have a scenario using asp.net Forms Authentication in a web farm and need to setup identical <machinekey /> sections on each servers .config file.
Is it better to store the <machinekey /> section in machine.config rather then web.config? what's the advantages and disadvantages of each approach concerning security?
<machineKey validationKey="[keyhere]"
decryptionKey="[keyhere]" validation="SHA1" />
If its not secure enough, is there any way to encrypt <machinekey /> section like we encrypt our connectionsstring (with DPAPI)? (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998280.aspx)
If application is started without debugging - it runs smoothly, when I press F5 I get: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging. More information may be available by starting the project without debugging. Click Help for more information"I noticed that problems are caused by URL Rewrite section in web.config:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="LowerCaseRule" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
when I comment it out - I can start debugging. Also debugging works on VS's built-in web server.I'm running Win7 64 bit, VS 2010, application's framework is 4.0, in IIS application has ASP.NET 4.0 Intergrated pool set
Say I have 3 keys:
<add key="w1" value="1"/>
<add key="w2" value="2"/>
<add key="w3" value="2"/>
I want to create a randomizer so that it gets random values each time.
I would like to put a value in web.config file in my project and read it programatically from .aspx page.Under which section of web.config file should I save the value. This is not a connectionstring. It is path of a file. And I how can programmatically read the value in the code?I am using C#.
View 3 RepliesMy asp.net app has is using a web.config for common configuration. I also have a section that maps some data objects to connection strings, and that section is going to be couple thousand of lines. I want to move that section to another config file "dataMappings.config", so I don't bulk up web.config - is there a standard mechanism of accessing that config file?
View 1 RepliesIs there a reason why i get different result when reading collections using WebConfigurationManager.GetSection method.
It sometimes returns values correctly in the Hashtable and at other times returns nothing for the same data. Its inconsistent.
client:-
Hashtable hsh = (Hashtable)WebConfigurationManager.GetSection("test1");
Config:-
<section
name="test1"
type="System.Configuration.DictionarySectionHandler"
/>
<section
name="test2"
type="System.Configuration.DictionarySectionHandler"
/>.......
I a custom config file which I am having problems reading from a class project, is there a simple way to do this? the path does not seem to be getting picked up in code, where as this works in a web project
View 2 RepliesI have a website written in C# that was running fine on one server. We moved it to another server and have a couple issues. I am mainly a VB.NET coder but can do a few things in C#. This is not a project - it is a website and can open it in VS2008 no problem. This is an admin site for the whole website where the user can add customer comments, etc. When logging in, it works fine. I can go to one of the admin pages after logging in and works. If I go to two other different pages, I get this error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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It turns out this is in the main.master page and it is used by the other pages that load fine. The ApplicationTitle variable is set right in the web.config file and like I said, it shows on the other pages.
My question is why would this code work fine for some pages and not two others? All of these admin pages are under a folder called Admin and the web.config file is in the root folder of the website. Its almost like these two pages cannot see the web.config file in the root folder? Why would that be if thats the case?
Btw, when I have this loaded in VS2008 and try to do a Build, it says:
It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.
I would assume the folders on the server are set right since all but two .aspx pages run fine. Just something I thought I would mention. This does not really seem to be a coding issue but something not set right especially since it ran on the other server just fine.
One of my NUnit tests has to read in some values from config files. In my main application this process works perfectly well, however when I run the unit test, the code that reads in the values from the config files doesnt read anything in. Ive tried putting app.config in my unit test project (I even tried web.config) but nothing seems to work. Are there any special steps involved when reading from config files in an nunit test ?
View 1 RepliesI have some inherited code which stores SMTP server, username, password in the system.net/mailSettings/smtp section of the Web.config.
It used to read them like so:
Configuration c = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath);
MailSettingsSectionGroup settings = (MailSettingsSectionGroup)c.GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings");
return settings.Smtp.Network.Host;
But this was failing when I had to deploy to a medium trust environment. So following the answer from this question, I rewrote it to use GetSection() like so:
SmtpSection settings = (SmtpSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.net/mailSettings/smtp"); return settings.Network.Host;
But it's still giving me a SecurityException on Medium trust, with the following message:
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I'm new to ASP.NET and MVC in particular. Now, I'm trying to understand if I can easily get values of custom attributes of submitted data. For example, When writing something like this inside a form (which works and posts and I can get the checkbox value) <%= Html.CheckBox("cb1", new { listen = "listen:6" }) %> Can I get the value of "listen" directly or do I need JS? (I know I can just use hidden fields, but I'm I'm asking anyway)
View 1 Replieswe are working on some utilities to provide the webmaster, one of which needs to search the properties of the webparts on a page for certain string values. So I want to desterilize the blob into the object graph and
iterate through the properties.
I currently have a file "abc.htm" in my Custom Server Control Project and it's Build Action is set to Embedded Resource.Now in the RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter output) method, I need to read that file and render it on the website.I am trying the following but it's to no avail:
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter output)
{
var providersURL = Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(typeof (OpenIDSel), "OpenIDSelector.Providers.htm");
var fi = new FileInfo(providersURL); // <- exception here
//the remaining code is to possibly render the file
}
This is an example of how the providersURL is:
/WebResource.axd?d=kyU2OiYu6lwshLH4pRUCUmG-pzI4xDC1ii9u032IPWwUzMsFzFHzL3veInwslz8Y0&t=634056587753507131
FileInfo is throwing System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
So I'm using the CreateUserWizard tool, which is working great, and have added a few custom fields to the user's Profile, which is also working great... with one exception. The fields that I'm capturing from TextBoxes are being saved to the database perfectly. But those I'm trying to capture from DropDownLists aren't being saved. No error is taking place, either in my code or at runtime, but no data is being written to the table from these particular fields.
I thought I knew how to capture data from a DropDownList in ASP.NET (I'm a newbie, but not ridiculously so), but I've tried a bunch of stuff here and nothing seems to be working. I'm posting an abbreviated version of my CreateUserWizard1_CreatedUser function below, with comments...
protected void CreateUserWizard1_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Get the profile of the user by finding the profile by name
TextBox oUserName = (TextBox)CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName");
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how to create and use a custom section in web.config ?
View 3 RepliesI've created a custom config section for my application. For some reason Visual Studio 2010 isn't picking up and of my custom properties. I'm getting warnings similar to this for all the "add" keys: Could not find schema information for the element 'urlFilterSection'
CONFIG FILE:
<configSections>
<section name="urlFilterSection" type="BotFinderApp.Models.UrlFilterSection, BotFinder" />
</configSections>
<urlFilterSection>
<urlFilterCollection>
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
<add url="urlhere.com.au" numberOfIpsToExtract="10" />
</urlFilterCollection>
</urlFilterSection>
UrlFilterSection:
namespace BotFinderApp.Models
{
public class UrlFilterSection : ConfigurationSection
{
public UrlFilterSection()
{
}
[ConfigurationProperty("urlFilterCollection", IsDefaultCollection = false)]
[ConfigurationCollection(typeof(UrlFilterCollection), AddItemName = "add", ClearItemsName = "clear", RemoveItemName = "remove")]
public UrlFilterCollection Urls
{
get
{
var urlsCollection = (UrlFilterCollection)base["urlFilterCollection"];
return urlsCollection;
}
}
}
}
UrlFilterCollection
namespace BotFinderApp.Models
{
public class UrlFilterCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection
{
public UrlFilterCollection()
{
}
protected override ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement()
{
return new UrlFilter();
}
protected override object GetElementKey(ConfigurationElement element)
{
return ((UrlFilter)element).Url;
}
}
}
UrlFilter
namespace BotFinderApp.Models
{
public class UrlFilter : ConfigurationElement
{
public UrlFilter()
{
}
[ConfigurationProperty("url", DefaultValue = "", IsRequired = true)]
public string Url
{
get { return (string)this["url"]; }
set { this["url"] = value; }
}
[ConfigurationProperty("numberOfIpsToExtract", DefaultValue = "0", IsRequired = true)]
public int NumberOfIpsToExtract
{
get { return (int)this["numberOfIpsToExtract"]; }
set { this["numberOfIpsToExtract"] = value; }
}
}
}