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Senior consultant Dan Hermes gives talks and workshops at .NET user groups at Microsoft in Waltham, MA:

Configuration in ASP.NET 2.0

At the hub of ASP.NET applications are configuration files: web.config and machine.config. Configuration settings determine critical aspects of your app: authentication, state management, and database connections, among others. Here are some of the hands-on issues covered:

Web Site Administration Tool (WAT): GUI access to the web.config file
Authentication types: Forms, Windows, and Passport – Which to use and when
Custom Errors: what they’re good for, and when other options would be better
State Management: in process, out of process, SqlServer and custom – how to decide
Connection Strings: how to use them in the config fileScalability: single user vs. web farm

Previous talks: XML in .NET, VB.NET 101, VB.NET 202