Re: Machine Config

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re:
Microsoft named "machine.config" incorrectly. Microsoft should have called it
"framework.config"

Let's not get hung up on semantics here.

It *is* machine.config...for the framework version
installed in the directory where that machine.config is found.

i.e., that "machine.config" has machine-wide scope for that framework version.

Machine.config is aptly named.

It's OK to have more machine.config files in other framework installation directories.
There's no difference in naming the file "machine.config" or "framework.config".

Something else to keep in mind, in regard to the OP's question, is that some of the configuration
parameters in machine.config refer to desktop and console apps, and don't necessarily refer to
*web* apps...so a "machine.config" file can have other purposes than configuring web apps.




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"MSDN" <sql_agentman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uVVLeoEdGHA.3556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Big misconception here.

read this carefully.
Microsoft named "machine.config" incorrectly. Microsoft should have called it
"framework.config"
machine.config is not for the entire machine but for the entire machine that is using a specific
framework
Because you can have Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and xx.x all at the same time on one machine then
you can have multiple machine.config files. One for each framework.

This is a trick question on an interview.

Also machine.config "framework.config" has allot of configurations that are common and then you
can specialize your configurations in your web.config for each web application you have on your
server.

SA


"TARUN" <tarun.sinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1147266766.620377.245220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello All

I need to ask about the configuration file in .NET,
There are Two config File
1. Web Config
2. Machine config
I understand the the usage of Web config , but not able to understand
the usage of Machine config.
I read in the article that you can also write your database connection
string in Machine Config
if this is true then why the people using web config , we can write the
whole configurartion
setting in machine.

Can any explain me why .net frame work requires two configuration file
if we write the same content (config setting) in both the files ????


With regards
Tarun Sinha





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