.NET Framework Security

XML-Based Configuration Files

First, the chapter will review the basics regarding .NET configuration files. It's like the old saying goes, “In order to break the rules, you have to know the rules.” This section will provide an overview of what is essential to using the config file type to manage your applications that run under IIS, and how to control certain aspects of behavior that typically have been managed by IIS. It is important to remember that all of these files are not only case sensitive, but use what's called camel casing. Camel casing specifies that the first letter of the first word of each section must be lowercase and the first letter of any concatenated words must be uppercase. For example, if we were going to define a section ...