Instead of version-controlling the actual configuration file, you could put a template or defaults file in version control, and a script that would ask for DB information and credential to generate the real config file, which would be excluded from (i.e. ignored by) version control. On checkout, developers could run this script to get a … Read more
I finally found this guy’s example. It was coded and worked right out of the box. http://manyrootsofallevilrants.blogspot.com/2011/07/nested-custom-configuration-collections.html I am going to paste the code here……only because I cannot stand it when someone says “Your answer is here”, and the link is dead. Please try his website first, and leave a “thank you” if it works. … Read more
As you have guessed, the baseAddresses element is completely ignored when hosting in IIS. The service’s base address is determined by the web site & virtual directory into which your wcf service is placed. Even when self-hosting, baseAddresses is not required. It is merely a convenience that avoids you having to enter a full address … Read more
Alex Martelli provided a solution for using ConfigParser to parse .properties files (which are apparently section-less config files). His solution is a file-like wrapper that will automagically insert a dummy section heading to satisfy ConfigParser‘s requirements.
First add a variable to your SSIS package (Package Scope) – I used FileName, OleRootFilePath, OleProperties, OleProvider. The type for each variable is “string”. Then I create a Configuration file (Select each variable – value) – populate the values in the configuration file – Eg: for OleProperties – Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; for OleProperties – Excel 8.0;HDR=, OleRootFilePath … Read more
As I understand anyhow in order to call 3rd party web service you pass password as plain text and no security certificates are involved. Then I would say the easiest approach would be to store password in encrypted format (via java encryption mechanism) when the encryption/decryption key is just hard coded in the code. I … Read more
A wild stab in the dark for modifying a single value: sed -c -i “s/\($TARGET_KEY *= *\).*/\1$REPLACEMENT_VALUE/” $CONFIG_FILE assuming that the target key and replacement value don’t contain any special regex characters, and that your key-value separator is “=”. Note, the -c option is system dependent and you may need to omit it for sed … Read more
I prefer to create an interface for setting query, loading, and saving. By using dependency injection, I can inject this into each component that requires it. This allows flexibility in terms of replacing the configuration strategy, and gives a common base for everything to work from. I prefer this to a single, global “settings loader” … Read more
To summarize the answers and what I’ve found so far, here are some good links to answer this question: Encrypting Configuration Information in ASP.NET 2.0 Applications – 4GuysFromRolla.com How To: Encrypt Configuration Sections in ASP.NET 2.0 Using DPAPI – MSDN Please feel free to complement with other links, maybe some to WinForms- or WPF-applications.
Using a file template is definitely the best solution. For example, if you have a database.ini file, commit a database.ini.template file and ignore database.ini in .hgignore