Is there a way to use one app setting variable definition in another app setting variable?
This is an example, right now I have:
<add key="P4RootDirectory" value="d:\p4\" />
<add key="P4LocalBranchSyncDirectory" value="d:\p4\sw\matt\" />
Ideally, I would like to have something like this
<add key="P4RootDirectory" value="d:\p4\" />
<add key="P4LocalBranchSyncDirectory" value="%P4RootDirectory%sw\matt\" />
Is this not possible? Would I have to do this in my code?
You will need to do this in code. If you use a DI injection framework that would be a great place to setup and automatically do the replace before injecting the final string into some constructor for example.
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Whenever I create a new document type in Umbraco and stops my server it deletes all of the generated models.
I read the documentation and it is properly because I have the following value set in my web.config
<add key="Umbraco.ModelsBuilder.Enable" value="true" />
<add key="Umbraco.ModelsBuilder.ModelsMode" value="LiveAppData" />
Right now I am kind of stuck because I can't start my project up again without it telling me that all of the models are missing.
So my question is how can I generate the models manually? or is that something i am missing?
If you change your Builder Mode to Dll, you can trigger a manual rebuild of the models from the Developer section in Umbraco.
<add key="Umbraco.ModelsBuilder.Enable" value="true" />
<add key="Umbraco.ModelsBuilder.ModelsMode" value="Dll" />
I'm using this, as a sample Authentication to try out. What I want to know is what happens in this line. i.e. ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ActiveDirectory.ResourceId"]). Would somebody be kind enough to explain it?
You can set the default configurations for your application in web.config file and access them using the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings property.
e.g.
web.config
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="highestScore" value="200" />
<add key="defaultSport" value="Cricket" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
Code
int maxScore = Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["highestScore"]);
string Sport = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["defaultSport"].ToString();
The ActiveDirectory.ResourceId app setting for the AuthBot example you referenced is:
<add key="ActiveDirectory.ResourceId" value="https://graph.windows.net/" />
The reason the .ResourceId is graph.windows.net as opposed to graph.microsoft.com is explained some here: https://github.com/matvelloso/AuthBot/pull/10
They are both valid. It only depends on which one you configure your
application in AAD for. Not everybody has Office 365 and therefore not
everybody will have graph.microsoft.com so I'd rather just leave it
with the option that is more likely going to work for most people
--Matt Velloso
I have a requirement where I need to write few information which will be changed frequently after the application gets deployed on server. Is there any way I can keep those information on some files of my asp.net application which when required can be updated and accessed in the application.
I tried to add the information in Web.config as that can be updated after deployment.Here is the code
<QueryConstants>
<add name ="SColumnName" value="UserId,First Name,Last Name,Description" />
<add name ="IColumnName" value="Company Name,Account Active Status" />
</QueryConstants>
but I am not able to access by the values from the keys.
How to achieve it ?
use app settings section as below in your web.config
<appSettings>
<add name ="SColumnName" value="UserId,First Name,Last Name,Description" />
<add name ="IColumnName" value="Company Name,Account Active Status" />
</appSettings>
then you can read as below
var sColumnName= ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SColumnName"];
var iColumnName= ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["IColumnName"];
also check How do you modify the web.config appSettings at runtime?
Intro
I'm developing a WebApp built on C# ASP.NET.
I've been researching creating a "Custom Configuration" section with child elements in the Web.config file, and I've hit a bit of a snag when it comes to consuming the keys/values in the data.
I seem to be going round in circles and I don't know how to tackle the issue I'm having.
Situation
I have a few different Connection Strings defined in the Web.Config file, in the <connectionStrings> section. They are for dev, test, and live databases.
<connectionStrings>
<add name="connectionOne" connectionString="..." providerName="..." />
<add name="connectionTwo" connectionString="..." providerName="..." />
<add name="connectionThree" connectionString="..." providerName="..." />
</connectionStrings>
The WebApp is currently hard-coded to use one of these connection strings - if I need to change which one to use, I need to re-compile.
Desired Functionality
I'd like to define a section in the Web.config, let's say DbSettings.
In that, I'd then like to be able to define some child elements for, let's say DbSettings, in which I could define dbConnectionName, foo, bar etc. as attributes.
For example:
<dbSettings>
<dbSetting key="DbSetting1"
dbConnectionName="connectionOne"
foo="fooOne"
bar="barOne" />
... and so on
</dbSettings>
Then, perhaps in the <appSettings> section, define which of these DbSettings elements I want to use to get the settings from:
<appSettings>
<add name="dbSettingsKey" value="DbSetting1" />
</appSettings>
Desired Web.config section
Here is a fuller example of what I'd imagine my Web.config file to look like:
Connection Strings
<connectionStrings>
<add name="connectionOne" connectionString="..." providerName="..." />
<add name="connectionTwo" connectionString="..." providerName="..." />
<add name="connectionThree" connectionString="..." providerName="..." />
</connectionStrings>
App Settings
<add key="dbSettingsKey" value="DbSetting1" /> // or 2, or 3 etc.
DbSettings (custom section)
<dbSettings>
<dbSetting key="DbSetting1"
dbConnectionName="connectionOne"
foo="fooOne"
bar="barOne" />
<dbSetting key="DbSetting2"
dbConnectionName="connectionTwo"
foo="fooTwo"
bar="barTwo" />
<dbSetting key="DbSetting3"
dbConnectionName="connectionThree"
foo="fooThree"
bar="barThree" />
</dbSettings>
My question...
How the devil am I going to get this desired functionality in the C# code?
I've read loads on "creating your own custom section", and similarly "creating a custom config collection". But, I just can't seem to glue it all together to apply for my situation.
I'd like to be able to have a class (like the one I'm using at the moment with the hard-coded strings), which I can reference necessary properties (as I am doing, at the moment) - and then the code can dynamically load the correct settings at run-time from the sections I've described above.
As always, thank you in advance for your suggestions and help.
I agree with the comments. The way this is usually done is you deploy a different web.config to each environment. When your deployment group (or you) deploys, you deploy everything EXCEPT the web.config unless you have changes to push.
In answer to your other question, adding a custom section is not trivial. It's quite a bit of work. Custom section handler which requires a whole bunch of configuration element classes and a bunch of configuration element collection classes... and then, if you want it to "work" correctly, you also need to create a schema and register that with the IDE, etc.
For your particular case, I'd just do it the "normal" way :).
I have consolidated the connection string information for a number of C# .NET solutions that are in my possession. Previously, each project was storing its connection string in its own format, requiring me to modify several files for each installation of the software.
Only one remaining solution is giving me trouble. This particular solution uses Castle Windsor 2.0, ActiveRecord 2.0 and NHibernate 2.1. The code reads its configuration from an XML file. I wish to remove the connection string from the config file and set it programmatically in the code.
Here is the relevant section of code that initiates Windsor:
windsorContainer = new WindsorContainer(new XmlInterpreter(xmlFileName));
windsorContainer.Resolve<IWindsorConfigurator>().Configure(windsorContainer);
logger = windsorContainer.Resolve<ILogger>();
Here are the contents of the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<properties>
<connectionString>Server=*****;Database=*****;User Id=*****;Password=*****</connectionString>
</properties>
<facilities>
<facility id="logging" type="Castle.Facilities.Logging.LoggingFacility, Castle.Facilities.Logging" loggingApi="log4net" configFile="Configs/log4net.config" />
<facility id="atm" type="Castle.Facilities.AutomaticTransactionManagement.TransactionFacility, Castle.Facilities.AutomaticTransactionManagement" />
<facility id="arfacility" type="Castle.Facilities.ActiveRecordIntegration.ActiveRecordFacility, Castle.Facilities.ActiveRecordIntegration" isDebug="false" isWeb="false">
<!-- Configure the namespaces for the models using Active Record Integration -->
<assemblies>
<item>ChronoSteril.Application</item>
</assemblies>
<config>
<add key="connection.driver_class" value="NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver" />
<add key="dialect" value="NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect" />
<add key="connection.provider" value="NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider" />
<add key="connection.connection_string" value="#{connectionString}" />
<add key="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value="NHibernate.Caches.SysCache.SysCacheProvider, NHibernate.Caches.SysCache" />
<add key="proxyfactory.factory_class" value="NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle.ProxyFactoryFactory, NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle" />
<add key="hibernate.expiration" value="60" />
</config>
</facility>
</facilities>
<components>
<component id="windsorConfigurator" service="ChronoSteril.Application.IWindsorConfigurator, ChronoSteril.Application" type="ChronoSteril.WinApp.ClarionIntegrationWindsorConfigurator, ChronoSteril.WinApp" />
</components>
I am not familiar with Windsor. During my Google tour, I did see some code that adds facilities programmatically, but those examples were not valid for my version of Windsor (I assume).
Question: Can anyone guide me in removing the connection string information from the XML file and allow me to set it in the code?
Thank you!
I managed to accomplish my intention. It is not ideal, but will work until the code base is rewritten. (I cannot wait to drop the existing code like a bad dream.)
Patrick's comment, under my initial question, let me to refine my search criteria, which yielded the thread located here.
My XML file remains the same, except that I use bogus values for the connection string information. I will never need to modify these, and they do not reveal any valid connection information. This was my intention. I still have not discovered how to successfully remove the ActiveRecord configuration from the XML file and configure using code.
I now call a method that contains the following code:
ISessionFactoryHolder sessionFactoryHolder = ActiveRecordMediator.GetSessionFactoryHolder();
NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration configuration = sessionFactoryHolder.GetConfiguration(typeof(ActiveRecordBase));
connectionString = ReadConnectionString();
configuration.SetProperty("connection.connection_string", connectionString);
This works for me. I hope that it can also help someone else who is in the same position as I was.