December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
Content preview from A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic® .NET
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ASP.NET Configuration
As mentioned earlier this chapter, ASP.NET applications use the web.config file as their configuration setting repository.
The web.config file uses a hierarchical configuration. This means that your application can inherit settings from another application, and vice versa. In an ASP.NET application, which typically consists of a directory structure several levels deep, a subfolder will inherit the parent's web.config settings, unless overridden by another web.config file.
For example, imagine the directory structure shown in Figure 13.6.
Figure 13.6. A typical ASP.NET directory structure.
The entire Web application would automatically ...