Deepak

• Dec 19th, 2006

 

Web.config file, as it sounds like is a configuration file for the Asp .net web application. An Asp .net application has one web.config file which keeps the configurations required for the corresponding application. Web.config file is written in XML with specific tags having specific meanings.

We have Machine.config file also. As web.config file is used to configure one asp .net web application, same way Machine.config file is used to configure the application according to a particular machine. That is, configuration done in machine.config file is affected on any application that runs on a particular machine. Usually, this file is not altered and only web.config is used which configuring applications.

Deepu

AbhinavJain

 Profile Answers by AbhinavJain 

• Feb 27th, 2007

 

Web.Config is nothing but a file that contains the configuration information of our web application.
Its contains the information that tells how the application will behave under certain circumstances.
The settings in the Machine.Config file can be overridden with respective setting in web.Config for that particular application.
In this way, you can make your application to behave different as compared to other application in the same Machine.

ynvpavan

 Profile Answers by ynvpavan 

• Jul 14th, 2008

 

Configuration information for ASP.NET resources is contained in a collection of configuration files, each named Web.config. Each configuration file contains a nested hierarchy of XML tags and subtags with attributes that specify the configuration settings. Because the tags must be well-formed XML, the tags, subtags, and attributes are case-sensitive. Tag names and attribute names are camel-cased, which means that the first character of a tag name is lowercase and the first letter of any subsequent concatenated words is uppercase. Attribute values are Pascal-case, which means that the first character is uppercase and the first letter of any subsequent concatenated words is uppercase. Exceptions are true and false, which are always lowercase.

All configuration information resides between the <configuration> and </configuration> root XML tags. Configuration information between the tags is grouped into two main areas: the configuration section handler declaration area and the configuration section settings area.

Configuration section handler declarations appear at the top of the configuration file between <configSections> and </configSections> tags. Each declaration contained in a <section> tag specifies the name of a section that provides a specific set of configuration data and the name of the .NET Framework class that processes configuration data in that section.

The configuration section settings area follows the <configSections> area and contains the actual configuration settings. There is one configuration section for each declaration in the <configSections> area. Each configuration section contains subtags with attributes that contain the settings for that section.