I have an asp.net CORE project targeting .NET Framework 4.71
There is an appsettings.json file but not web.config.
When I check the binaries of the deployed application service, then I see there is
a file literally called web.config.
I need to put some server header removal entries in that web.config but it seems
only to be available where it is deployed.
So who is creating that web.config file which is not available locally in the
code solution?
In regular .NET world, we have option to save settings in web.config or in app.config file. But in .NET Core, you have option to save them in few other locations like appsettings.json , appsettings.<Environment>.json and in secrets.json.
One of the main reason settings are not saved in web.config file is, to avoid settings getting checked-into repo. By default appsettings.json file are ignored by repo clients.
As Kirk said, the dotnet-cli automatically creates this web.config based on the the csproj settings.
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Im looking to add a web.config (or app.config) so that i can have different settings (e.g. DEV build vs RELEASE build, for instance).
Can i simply add a .config file and expect to read from it?
I noticed that there is also an option to add a appsettings.json (App Settings File).
Which one of these should i be using for Blazor Client app (hosted via Asp.net)?
Thanks
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Based on the following thread, i might just go with a settings
file on the Server side and feeding it to the Client via API.
Here is another reference for appsettings.json vs web.config
I was able to find a more concrete example int this article.
I believe you can use appsettings.Development.json and appsettings.json
Hope this helps...
When publishing a .Net Core app to a server via WebDeploy, a Web.Config file is created, with stdoutLogEnabled=false. This is overwriting the web.config on the server where I have set stdoutLogEnabled=true.
I struggling to find how I set the default value of stdoutLogEnabled prior to publishing. On .Net framework apps I would do this within the web.config file with transformations, however in .Net core I actually don't have a web.config file within my solution.
I've tried to find documentation on how to set the value, but it either doesn't exist, or more likely, I'm not using the correct search term. Can somebody please advise on how to set default values in the web.config.
Create a web.config and put it the root directory of your source, Modify the web.config file to enable logging and any other customization you need.
When you publish, it’ll use that file instead of generating a completely new file.
I actually just created an NServiceBus self-hosted endpoint and bootstrapped owin self-hosted web api 2 by adding the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.OwinSelfHost nuget package. It's all up and running fine and I can hit the controller endpoints that I added, but the package didn't add the normal items like the web.config.
I'd like to have the normal web.config available to where I can also add in different build configurations (the transform files like web.debug.config, web.release.config, etc).
How do I add this into my project?
I tried just adding the file, but ConfigurationManager doesn't read it.
web.config is used for asp.net web application on a hosted server. As you are using a self-hosted server then web.config is no applicable. You would need app.config which would resolve to the executable name with the .config file extension.
Add app.config to the project and ConfigurationManager should be able to read it.
UPDATE:
It was indicated that the same config transformation was also needed for app.config
The following VS tool fills in the gap left between web.config transformations.
Configuration Transform
Automatically transform app.config or any other config during build
process. Once the transformation is set, it will run on other build
machines without the extension.
The link includes step by step instructions on how to use it in applying configuration transformations.
I opened an existing project in VS2015, made some small changes and published the MVC application to my webserver with an existing WebDeploy publishing profile. This broke the application because the web.config file on the server was overwritten with the original one for my developers machine. I have checked the settings in the Publish-wizard but the configuration was like always before. I could fix the application by manually changing the web.config on production but am afraid now to publish again.
Has anything changed in the WebDeploy publishing method with web.config transformation?
I solved it. In my case the publishing profile was renamed to "servername (production)" and the configuration setting for the transformation was only web.servername.config. After changing the name of the publishing profile to the exact same name as the config setting it worked.
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What is the difference between a Web and App .config file in a WCF Service.
From what I have found so far you can use either to specify the Service Settings but is there any need to use one or the other?
If your application is hosted with IIS , web.config is there.
If your application is standalone , app.config is there.
We use Web.Config where asp.net web projects or web services are there and ,
App.Config is used where Windows Forms, Windows Services, Console Apps and WPF applications are there.
you can read more about it here in the documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733932.aspx
Difference between Web.config and Machine.config:
The settings made in the Web.config file are applied to that particular web application only whereas the settings of Machine.config file are applied to the whole asp.net application.
Web.config file Setting of asp.net all project Machine.config are setting of server setting.
Web config will be for that particular aplln whereas the Machine .config will for the whole machine.
Every ASP.NET application has a Web.config file . The settings specified in this will imply only to that application. Whereas Your System will have a Machine.config file in Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CONFIG Folder which contains specifications and settings at a system level.
Web.config file is to override the settings from the Machine.config file. Machine.config file settings are applied to all the webapplications residing on the server while Web.config settings are application specific.
Machine. config is configuration file for all the application in the IIS. but Web.config is a configuration file for a application or folder.
Machine.config for machine level configuration. Web.config for a application/folder level configuration.