WIERD: Cant change webconfig in 2.0?

[VB Programmer]

I used to be able to change minor settings in my web.config file when it was
on the web server, such as <appSettings> elements. In ASP.NET 2.0 I noticed
that there is a web.config AND a PrecompiledApp.config file. So, how can I
change <appSettings> (or other) elements once it's been deployed to the
server?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Admins can lock settings. here is a link.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ms178693.aspx

Eric

 

[VB Programmer]

This isn't the case. All my other sites work fine and my hoster didn't do
this.

In 2.0 the web.config is handled differently if precomiled it seems. In my
web deployment project I clicked 'enable web.config file section
replacement' and put this: appSettings=appsettings.config;

Then I created an appsettings.config and added the whole <appSettings>
section.

Is this correct? After I publish do I modify the appsettings.config to make
these changes?

Thanks.

 

[syedali]

Yes, you can do that. Your appsettings.config file should look something similar to this:

<appSettings>
<add key="FileLimit" value="2048" />
<add key="FileTypes" value="pdf,jpg,jpeg,bmp,gif,mpg,mpeg,mp3,wav,avi,fla,psd,doc,swf,txt" />
<add key="Webmaster" value="sali"/>
<add key="ConnectionString" value="server=dev;uid=dev;Pwd=dev;database=dev" />
</appSettings>

You do not need to do anything to your appsettings.config file, in fact you do not even need this file for deployment. This file is only used for replacement. If you look in your deployment folder web.config file you'll see everything within <appSettings></appSettings> was replaced by appsettings.config contents.