Tweaking the settings in your configuration files in ASP.Net can provide a nice performance boost. These files include machine.config and web.config. The web.config file is application-specific and is ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its <appsettings> section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects. In ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to access configuration settings in your project's appsettings.json file and then make those settings available throughout your application as IOptions objects. But ...

ASP.NET Core configuration providers read configuration data from common sources such as JSON files and databases. But you can use other sources by creating custom configuration providers. We use ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...