reading and writing the tags in web.config file c#.net

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Let us consider a web.config file deployed from website....

let us take another project say console application or some class file then is it possible to read that web.configuration file and add some tags in that web.config file

i just want to add these lines in to it

XML

<system.webServer>
    <modules>
      <add name="sample" type="sample.class" />
    </modules>
  </system.webServer>

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Posted 22-Jun-12 1:20am

gowthammanju

Updated 22-Jun-12 1:31am

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bbirajdar 22-Jun-12 7:27am

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bbirajdar · Answer 1 · 2012-06-22T01:26:00

Edit and Encrypt Web.Config Sections Using C# 2.0[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861909.aspx[^]

http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2011/12/write-modify-webconfig-programmatically.html[^]

http://www.devproconnections.com/article/aspnet2/programming-the-web-config-file-using-c[^]

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 2 · 2012-06-22T01:27:00

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You are just going to have to use XmlDocument or XDocument (3.5) to parse the file.

Look at the links below for headstart:

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=102[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/360024/how-do-i-set-a-connection-string-config-programatically-in-net/1312739[^]

Note: I wouldn't recommend modifying web.config directly in production website. Why not use another xml file to store the runtime configurations?

Posted 22-Jun-12 1:27am

Manas Bhardwaj

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gowthammanju 22-Jun-12 7:50am

can u provide me some samples through xmlreader/ xmlwriter classes for modifying web.config

bbirajdar 22-Jun-12 8:47am

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xmlreader%2F+xmlwriter+classes+for+modifying+web.config