Re: web.config

From: Nick Malik [Microsoft] (nickmalik_at_hotmail.nospam.com)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:28:06 -0800

Hello Dan,

You definitely provided more information in that response. You also appear
to be a bit unhappy with Pete's response. He's only trying to help.

First off, the App Settings section appears under the configuration tags,
not within the system.web child:

<configuration>
   <system.web>
      ...
   </system.web>
   <appSettings>
       <add key="somekey" value="somevalue" />
   </appSettings>
</configuration>

Next, XML is case sensitive. It is not an <appsettings> section. it is an
<appSettings> section.

This is probably your problem.

For further info, this article is often useful:
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/doc/configretrieve.aspx

Also, the reason that Pete assumed that you are accessing a file is because
the CONTENT of the config app setting that you posted was a filename. He
was hoping to help you out of the next issue you may face: the fact that
ASP.NET applications do not normally have access to file system resources.

I hope this helps, 

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"Dan" <dan@dsully.com> wrote in message 
news:%23%232D%23mpFFHA.4052@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I don't have  NET 2 on the machine. I haven't used the "file" attribute in 
>the appsettings code so why would it think that I am referring to an 
>external file? The error comes up before the appsetting is accessed by vb 
>code. when I try to debug start---There are no compile errors.
>
> The KB article says that this error arises from a syntax error in the 
> web.config file. If I remove the three lines from the web.config file, the 
> problem goes away.
>
> It doesn't matter what I use as the key name or the value. If those lines 
> are present the rror is tripped.
>
> "Pete Wright" <peterjwright@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:e42PZymFFHA.1396@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> This error doesn't actually have anything to do with web.config. There 
>> are number of reasons why this could happen, but the most common I see on 
>> my machines is that I have betas of Web Developer Express or Visual 
>> Studio.NEt 2005 on the machine. These cause the app to run as a .NET 2.0 
>> app. *IF* this is the case, download Denis Bauer's excellent ASP.NET 
>> version switcher from 
>> http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/ASPNETVersionSwitcher.aspx&e=9901. 
>> Then run it, point it at your application and switch it back into .NET 
>> 1.1 instead of .NET 2.
>>
>> If you aren't use a .NET 2.0 beta anywhere on the machine take a look at 
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B306172. This 
>> describes common error messages and how to resolve them with .NET.
>>
>> Finally, the settings you posted for your web.config indicate that you 
>> want your application to access a local file at runtime. SInce this is a 
>> web application, make sure that the web application user has access 
>> rights to that file or you will find that you will next get a security 
>> violation error thrown when you do resolve the problem.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Pete Wright
>> Author of ADO.NET Novice to Pro for Apress
>> www.petewright.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dan" <dan@dsully.com> wrote in message 
>> news:OR7E4LiFFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>I am trying to add a definition for ConnString to web.config as follows 
>>>(VB.NET STD 2003)
>>>
>>> <configuration>
>>> <system.web>
>>> .........
>>> <appsettings>
>>>    <add key="ConnString" value="C:\test\test.mdb" />
>>> </appsettings>
>>>
>>> </system.web>
>>> </configuration>
>>>
>>> When I try to run it, I get "Error while trying to run project: Unable 
>>> to start debugging on web server. Server side error occurred on sending 
>>> debug HTTP request."
>>>
>>> I have tried relocating the entry inside the <system.web> tags with the 
>>> same result.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?  Thanks.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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