Encrypting app.config File

Question

I have an app.config file that I need to distribute with my application. It was created because of a Service Reference to an ASMX web service I added.

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Answer 1

You can encrypt sections of an App.Config or Web.Config, there's a heap of blog entries which cover this in detail:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/EncryptingTheAppConfig.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/01/09/434893.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dtkwfdky.aspx

http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2006/01/08/encrypting-custom-configuration-sections.aspx

Here's the MSDN version: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/89211k9b%28VS.80%29.aspx

Here's one for how to encrypt via code: http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2006/03/14/2883.aspx