configuration-files – Make Me Engineer

Read custom configuration file in C# (Framework 4.0)

June 14, 2023 by Tarik

// Map the roaming configuration file. This // enables the application to access // the configuration file using the // System.Configuration.Configuration class ExeConfigurationFileMap configFileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap(); configFileMap.ExeConfigFilename = roamingConfig.FilePath; // Get the mapped configuration file. Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration( configFileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None); from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.configurationmanager.aspx

Java – encrypt / decrypt user name and password from a configuration file

June 1, 2023 by Tarik

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

Correct implementation of a custom config section with nested collections?

May 25, 2023 by Tarik

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

WCF service configuration file question regarding

May 15, 2023 by Tarik

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

2 php.ini files

April 15, 2023 by Tarik

Depends on where you are running PHP from. If you run it from command line, it uses the cli/php.ini and apache2/php.ini when run through apache. You are executing phpinfo() through the browser, hence you get /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini as the answer. Running php -r “phpinfo();” | grep “Loaded Configuration” from the terminal should output the CLI ini. … Read more

Creating a config file in PHP

November 7, 2022 by Tarik

One simple but elegant way is to create a config.php file (or whatever you call it) that just returns an array: <?php return array( ‘host’ => ‘localhost’, ‘username’ => ‘root’, ); And then: $configs = include(‘config.php’);

How can I reference a file for variables using Bash?

October 7, 2022 by Tarik

The short answer Use the source command. An example using source For example: config.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash production=”liveschool_joe” playschool=”playschool_joe” echo $playschool script.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash source config.sh echo $production Note that the output from sh ./script.sh in this example is: ~$ sh ./script.sh playschool_joe liveschool_joe This is because the source command actually runs the program. Everything in … Read more

Using ConfigParser to read a file without section name

July 26, 2022 by Tarik

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.

How to programmatically modify WCF app.config endpoint address setting?

July 20, 2022 by Tarik

Is this on the client side of things?? If so, you need to create an instance of WsHttpBinding, and an EndpointAddress, and then pass those two to the proxy client constructor that takes these two as parameters. // using System.ServiceModel; WSHttpBinding binding = new WSHttpBinding(); EndpointAddress endpoint = new EndpointAddress(new Uri(“http://localhost:9000/MyService”)); MyServiceClient client = new … Read more

What’s in an Eclipse .classpath/.project file?

July 13, 2022 by Tarik

Eclipse is a runtime environment for plugins. Virtually everything you see in Eclipse is the result of plugins installed on Eclipse, rather than Eclipse itself. The .project file is maintained by the core Eclipse platform, and its goal is to describe the project from a generic, plugin-independent Eclipse view. What’s the project’s name? what other … Read more