Changing Properties from a Win Application to a Web Applicationg?

Question

Hi,

I have been trying to find ways around this code or to do something about it but I still don't understand a few things about creating websites in ASP.NET. So my problem is the following:

return int.Parse(Properties.Settings.Default["SiteId"].ToString());

and

Main

Properties.Settings.Default["SiteId"] = value;

Any help translating from Win to Web will be really helpful.

theLizard · Answer

Regor, there are a number of ways you could do what you want, one way could be values stored in a simple text file or database, what will determine the best place to do what you want is based on what you want to store. This is pretty basic return int.Parse(Properties.Settings.Default["SiteId"].ToString()); //get the value Properties.Settings.Default["SiteId"] = value; //set the value you could have a text file that stores the values and have a function called public string getMyValue(string what) { //you would of course need code to read through the text file or get a database record return(my value); } and public void setMyValue(string what, string value) { //again, you would of course need code to read through the text file write your code } if you are using code behind in your web site, having this type of code in an generic class ie, one that is not specific or have Web references of windows forms references just system type references, then the code would work in both web and forms applications. The following code example is good for both... In both Web apps and Form apps you simply need to give the using directive using generic; to use this on your forms web or otherwise, whenever you need to access its methods generic.web_forms wb = new web_forms(); now you have a .cs that is easy to maintain for both platforms. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace generic { public class web_forms { public string getMyValue(string what) { //you would of course need code to read through the text file return(""); } public void setMyValue(string what, string value) { //again, you would of course need code to read through the text file //write your code } } } I hope I have understood your problem, if not let me know...

regor · Answer

Hi, Is there not other way that is not through the web.config, I mean in the long turn I dont want it to be such a global part of the website as I am running this code under a class. Thanks.

Saroj Sahoo · Answer

Win application contains app.config file which contains key value pair.you can get value by usinf following code. ex: string name=Properties.Settings.Default.UserName; Getting value from web.config: string retValue = Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UserName"];