Disable web.config inheritance?

Question

I have a content management application in the root of my website, and I\'m trying to use a different app (a billing application) under a sub-folder. Unfortunately, the web.

Answer 1

I would explicitly define all of the settings required - never assume that any setting is still set to the default value.

For example, if you're defining a connectionString include a tag before the , etc. For Membership define all of the attributes, including the cookie name. And so on.

It may make the file a bit bigger but it will definitely help you avoid the "but it worked on my box" scenario too :-)