Editing Web.config programmatically

Question

What is a good way to edit a Web.config file programmatically?

I looked into System.Xml but couldn\'t find any obvious answers.

Answer 1

In theory; you could just generate a web config file programmatically and with some templating to make it easy.

However, if you're trying to edit your web.config from within the site; it's highly recommended you don't. At the very least; you'd trigger an app reset every time you updated it; which would be especially bad if you're using in-process sessions.

As Anders asked, what is it you're trying to do?