Chapter 12. Configuration and Deployment

 

Leave no stone unturned.

 
 --Euripides

The .NET Framework provides an extensible infrastructure that enables you to define configuration settings for all types of applications including, but not limited to, ASP.NET applications. All applications, no matter the platform and the working model, should always be driven by configurable settings read from an external storage medium. Simply by updating the configuration file, developers and system administrators should be able to change the way in which the application works as well as the elements of the user interface. In other words, to the extent possible, applications should always be designed in a parametric way and according to the theoretical principles ...

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