Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

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Keith J. Farmer — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:42:00 GMT

Why not add a MMC component? It could function like the server explorer -- you register an application so it remembers where to find the config, and then go from there. If you could make a tab in IIS, like Whidbey does for the framework switcher, that'd be another good place for it to live.

If you could make it work over UNCs, it would be a great way to centrally configure websites. Particularly if you could mark some apps as having synchronized configurations (or even manually synchronize them).

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Kevin Harder — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:07:00 GMT

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Scott Densmore — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:00:00 GMT

Well, their was some internal strife that caused us not to commit to MMC just yet (hopefully we can do it in V2). Also, you can open files from anywhere as long as you the correct permissions. You can also open multiple applications in the same session... very soon you will see.

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theCoach — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:45:00 GMT

The East Coasters are getting antsy.

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Keith J. Farmer — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:08:00 GMT

Cool to hear, Scott! Now if that IDictionaryEntry bit you mentioned earlier could be fixed, I've 2-3 projects that would be interesting to throw at it.

Don't suppose you could post the updated docs while we wait?

The *West* Coasters are already antsy... :)

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Keith J. Farmer — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:09:00 GMT

IDictionaryService .. pardon

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Keith J. Farmer — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:22:00 GMT

practices homepage says: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp

currently 404s for me

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Kevin Harder — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 02:14:00 GMT

The link seems to be working fine now, at least for me. Thank you Scott, it looks great.

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re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

cal — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:19:00 GMT

I can't seem the images, is there a reason for that?

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cal — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:19:00 GMT

never mind about the previous question, it's our firewall.

thanks

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Manage Application Settings Using Enterprise Library Configuration

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Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

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re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Graham Laidler — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:14:00 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to use this to store key-value pairs, as I used extensively with the former application block, but can't seem to find out how. Are there any examples out there (the included ones seem to implement custom classes, but I don't need it).

G

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration - (for ASP.NET web app)

Uri Tagger — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:33:00 GMT

URGENT QUESTION: How do you configure a Data Access connection string in a web application? I can't figure out what the configuration file should be or where. Also, I couldn't find examples for a user/password type of connection string.
Thanks!
Uri.

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re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Kevin Burton — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:55:00 GMT

QUESTION: How do I extend the configuration to encrypt part or all of an XML configuration file?

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Pete Mounce — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:54:00 GMT

Are there any examples of how to use the configuration block to read config that contains lists of items?

For example, If I have the following xml (hopefully this will format...), which has a schema (available on request):

[code]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Handsets xmlns="http://wwwm.iml.co.uk/schemas/Handsets"">http://wwwm.iml.co.uk/schemas/Handsets" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://wwwm.iml.co.uk/schemas/Handsets
Handsets.xsd">
<Handset Version="1" Type="Communicator">
<ScreenSize Height="97" Width="32" PixelRatioXToY="0.76" />
<LogoSizePresets>
<LogoSizePreset Height="97" Text="97 x 32 (large)" Width="32" />
<LogoSizePreset Height="97" Text="97 x 23 (small)" Width="23" />
</LogoSizePresets>
<Palette>
<Color Blue="104" Name="Light" Green="124" Red="112" />
<Color Blue="53" Name="Dark" Green="71" Red="133" />
</Palette>
</Handset>
</Handsets>
[/code]

I want to parse the LogoSizePresets and Colors into an object's properties; specifically an ArrayList and a Hashtable (keyed by the colour name) respectively.

Please note that I'm quite new to XML in general, and am still reading the documentation for Enterprise Library. Before this, in a different project, I was using a static object with properties that read their values from a .config file and typed them accordingly so I had strongly-typed read access and Intellisense support. This time, I'm kinda the point guy on developing a standard application configuration API, which will hopefully allow us to throw XML at the EntLib, tell it which class to chuck the parsed config values out to, and play with that in a nicely reusable fashion.

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Luis Gonzalez — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:08:00 GMT

Hello Scott,

On your comment:
"Well, their was some internal strife that caused us not to commit to MMC just yet (hopefully we can do it in V2)."

We would like to develop many administrative tools, probably using MMC and C# architecture. So if you recommend ussing MMC and C#, would you have an example on this? Or should we use the architecture you are using in Configuration block (not mmc).

But you are also saying that hopefully version 2 will be MMC. and that you haad some internal strife.. So could you elaborate more on this? This is kind of urgent to us.
When is V2 comming out? do you have any examples on MMC and C# that are as complete as the configuration block tool?

Thanks for you help.
Cordially,
Luis
luisg_gonzalez@hotmail.com

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Here is the list of links from .NET Musings: Enterprise Library Configuration Part 1 http://weblogs.asp.net/scottdensmore/archive/2005/01/28/362579.aspx Enterprise Library as non-Admin http://weblogs.asp.net/scottdensmore/archive/2005/01/29/363202.aspx Manage Application Settings Using Enterprise Library Configuration http://blog.hishambaz.com/archive/2005/01/30/197.aspx Logging with Enterprise Library http://blog.hishambaz.com/archive/2005/01/30/202.aspx Enterprise Library Logging - Rolling File Sink...

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jasper — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:30:00 GMT

The DAAB doesn't seem to recognise the standard SQL "User ID" and "Password" configurations, it seems to want "user" and something else for "Password", I have tried "PWD" but it doesn't like that.
There is no relevant documentation on this monster. Why couldn't they just use what we are all used to: "User ID" and "Password" ?

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Scott Densmore — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:35:00 GMT

jasper,

This is a bug. The problem is that we only have a couple of valid tokes for user id and password. The valid values are the following :

for User Id you can use - "User id" or "uid" (without the quotes)
for Password you can use - "Password" or "pwd" (without the quotes)

Also, these values are case sensitive right now. We will log this as a bug and look at getting a fix out.

scott

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1

Scott Densmore — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:43:00 GMT

jasper

Actually after looking a little further, the values are not case sensitive.

Sorry about that..
scott

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