Question

Any section in my web.config file that I want to encrypt I run this command line util:
aspnet_regiis -pe “anySection” -app “/SampleApplication”

It all works just fine until I try encrypt my connectionStrings sections

I define (and I cannot change this) my connectionStrings section like this:

<connectionStrings>
    <add key="myKey" value="myValue"/>      
</connectionStrings>

But the “standard” way of defining it is like this:

  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="myName" connectionString="...." providerName="..." />
  </connectionStrings>

How when I run:

aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/SampleApplication" 

It errors with “…Unrecognized attribute ‘key’….”. If I change the connection string section to be the standard way it works fine. But I CANNOT use this format.

Is there a way of doing this using the aspnet_regiis util? Doing it with code is not an option for me.

Also is there a way to run this untility without specifing the application (-app “/SampleApplication”) instead giving the path to the web.config file?

thanks a million

Answer 1

It looks like you’ve copied and pasted an appSetting

<add key="myKey" value="myValue"/> is invalid since key and value are not an attributes the connectionString element expects.

You will have to use the “standard”

<add name="myName" connectionString="...." />

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connectionStrings Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)