October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 15m
English
Content preview from Applied XML Programming for Microsoft® .NET
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Configuration Files
The .NET Framework provides three basic types of configuration files: machine, application, and security. Despite their different contents and goals, all configuration files are XML files and share the same schema. For example, all configuration files begin with a <configuration> node and then differentiate their contents and child nodes according to the final goal and the information contained. In this chapter, we’ll focus primarily on application configuration files, but this section also provides a quick introduction to the other types of configuration files.
The XML Schema for Configuration Settings
As mentioned, configuration files are standard XML files that follow a particular schema. This schema defines all possible ...