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----------------------------------------------------------- From: Swapnil_B1 Message 1 in Discussion Web Site Administration Tool One of the new features for web developers in Visual Studio 2005 is a graphical administration tool for configuring common application and security settings for your web sites. The Web site Administration tool allows you to perform the following configuration tasks: Configure application security, including authentication and authorization settings Manage users and roles for your applicationCreate or manage application settings Configure SMTP e-mail settings Take an application temporarily offline, to allow reliable updates of content and data Adjust debugging and tracing settings Define a default custom error page Select providers for use with site features such as membership The Web Application Administration tool is available with all versions of Visual Studio 2005, and from Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. To open the administration tool from a web site project, select ASP.NET Configuration from the Website menu. Web Site Configuration Web site configuration settings are stored in an XML file named Web.config, which is located in the root folder of the Web site. The Web Site Administration Tool lets you change your site configuration without having to manually edit the Web.config file. The first time that you use the Web Site Administration Tool to administer a specific Web site, if no Web.config file exists, the Web Site Administration Tool creates one. By default, the Web Site Administration Tool also creates a database in the App_Data folder of the Web site to store application services data, such as membership and roles information. For most settings, changes that are made in the Web Site Administration Tool take effect immediately and are reflected in the Web.config file. The Web Site Administration Tool features a tabbed interface that groups related configuration settings within each tab. The tabs and the configuration settings that the tabs manage are described in the following sections. Security Tab Use the Security tab to manage access rules to help secure specific resources within the Web site and to manage user accounts and roles. You can specify how the Web site is used—either from the Internet (publicly) or from an intranet (on a local area network). This in turn indicates the type of authentication mode that the Web site will use. Internet Web sites use the ASP.NET membership system, where you define individual user accounts. ASP.NET uses a security system to restrict access to specific user accounts or the roles to which the user accounts belong. Intranet Web sites use Windows authentication, where users are identified by their Windows logon information. Application Tab Use the Application tab to manage a variety of settings related to the Web site, including the following Application settings, which are name/value pairs that you want to store centrally and access in code from anywhere in the Web site SMTP settings, which determine how your site sends e-mail. Debug and trace settings. Offline and online settings, which take the Web site offline (shut it down) to perform maintenance or to bring a new Microsoft SQL Server Standard edition database online. Provider Tab Use the Provider tab to test or assign providers for membership and role management for the Web site. Database providers are classes that are called to store application data for a particular feature. By default, the Web Site Administration Tool configures and uses a local Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition database in the App_Data folder for the Web site. Instead, you can choose to use a different provider, such a remote SQL Server database, to store membership and role management Considerations The following sections provide some considerations for working with the Web Site Administration Tool Restarting the Application When SavingMost changes to configuration settings that you make in the Web Site Administration Tool take effect immediately. This requires the Web site to which the change applies to be restarted. Because this will cause currently active sessions in the Web site to be lost, you should make configuration changes to a staged or development version of the Web site before publishing these changes to the production server. Saving Your Settings Most changes to configuration settings that you make in the Web Site Administration Tool take effect immediately. For settings for which the Web Site Administration Tool interface has a dedicated Save button, leaving the Web Site Administration Tool idle or allowing the Web Site Administration Tool to time out before you click Save will cause your configuration settings changes to be lost. Time Out As a security measure, the Web Site Administration Tool times out after a period of inactivity. Any settings that did not take effect immediately and were not saved will be lost. If the Web Site Administration Tool has timed out, close your browser, and then reopen the Web Site Administration Tool in a new window. The Web Site Administration Tool manages only some of the configuration settings that are available to the Web site. Many other settings require direct modification of configuration files either manually, by using the MMC Snap-In for ASP.NET, or programmatically, by using the ASP.NET Configuration API.. 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