October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
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Encrypting Connection Strings
You can encrypt the <connectionStrings> section of a web configuration file. For example, Listing 9.6 contains an encrypted version of the Web.Config file that was created in Listing 9.4.
Listing 9.6. Web.Config
The contents of the <connectionStrings> section are no longer visible. However, an ASP.NET page can continue to read the value of the Movie database connection string by using the <%$ ConnectionStrings:Movie %> expression.
The easiest way to encrypt the <connectionStrings> section is to use the aspnet_regiis ...