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content  ASP.NET configuration management: an alternative to
web.config  , 14 Feb 2005 CPOL Rate this: Please Sign up or sign
in to vote. An alternative and flexible way to manage config
settings for multiple web applications.   ASP.NET web
applications that follow the classic configuration settings
management technique used nowadays store configuration values in
the web.config file. This is an XML configuration file,
containing various settings: some of them are targeted to the
ASP.NET engine itself (for example: globalization settings,
authentication settings, compilation settings); other settings
are targeted to the application, and are known as "AppSettings"
(from the name of the XML node containing them inside the
web.config file). The adoption of a configuration settings
management strategy based on web.config is suitable for single
web applications, but it quickly becomes unmanageable if you
need to maintain the configuration settings for a