Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

Take advantage of configuration providers and dependency injection to configure your ASP.Net Core applications in a loosely coupled manner Microsoft’s ASP.Net Core is an open-source, cross-platform, ...

Carrier settings are the data stored on an iPhone that are specific to a particular phone carrier (AT&T in the U.S.). When any of these settings need to be modified ...