Ini file equivalent ASP.Net etc

[MikeVance]

We need a way to replace .ini files or at least a safe way to
read/parse them in WEB applications. Hard coding User Identification
and Passwords in pages causes to much maintenance. Calling API's
from ASP isn't viable/allowable or secure. How are others addressing
this issue?

Thanks - Mike

 

[Patrice]

You could use web config. You can store this encrypted (AFAIK generalized in
2.0, there is a support article about specific entries being cryptable in
1.1).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329290/en-us

(In case this is ASP instead of ASP.NET try an ASP group instead).

 

[MikeVance]

I'm new to ASP.net, so what would the code look like to find/read a key
like [TheParm]=12345 from Web.config

 

[tf_group]

in vb.net

System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("config setting
name")

 

[Peter Zolja]

We need a way to replace .ini files or at least a safe way to

read/parse them in WEB applications. Hard coding User Identification
and Passwords in pages causes to much maintenance. Calling API's
from ASP isn't viable/allowable or secure. How are others addressing
this issue?

Try looking into storing values in the web.config file; it's fairly easy to
access custom values from your application...