If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about. I love keeping information in my ...

Having a process to manage the settings in your application's Web.config file as you move from release to production is essential to ensuring your production Web site works correctly. One way to ...

SPI Dynamics – Some of the most common and dangerous application security vulnerabilities that exist in ASP.NET Web-based applications come not from the C# or VB.NET code that make up its pages and ...

SPI Dynamics – These days, the biggest threat to an organization’s network security comes from its public Web site and the Web-based applications found there. Unlike internal-only network services ...

Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...