You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

Despite being almost infinitely customizable, Home Assistant can feel relatively straightforward on a surface level. Sometimes, however, you might find that you need to set up integrations or make ...

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 ...

If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about. I love keeping information in my ...

The Offline Files feature of Windows 2000 and later enables users to maintain a local copy of a shared folder so they can work with the folder and its contents when the server is unavailable. However, ...