Encryption / Decryption of app.config sections using RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider

Question

During the installation of our program we run this method to encrpyt sections of the app.config:

// Get the application configuration file.
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Answer 1

I ran into similar issues while debugging within Visual Studio 2010 on Win 7 with UAC set to it's default protection.

In order for me to get around this issue, I had to run Visual Studio as the Administrator ("Run as Administrator").

I had the same issue with trying to run the aspnet_regiis.exe to encrypt the section of my web.config. If I didn't run the commandline/console "as Administrator" I would get a commandline error that was even more cryptic: "Object already exists."