Question

I am running into a problem with a web.config in a child project that has the same connection string setting as a parent. We have this in several of our web apps but there is one case where we want a child not to use the parent web.config. Is there a setting or command in the child web.config to ignore the parent web.config?

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, you can also <clear /> out all previously defined connection strings from within your child web.config:

<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <clear/>
    <add name="definedInParentButRedefinedHere" etc="..." />
  </connectionStrings>
</configuration>