Category Archives: Configuration

You ARE protecting your passwords in your config files AREN’T YOU?

When we are writing software for our clients, we have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure the security of their site. One way to increase security is to ensure that passwords and other sensitive information are not laying around in our config files unsecured (in plain text). All too many times I have seen something like […]

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Antipattern: The Bloated Configuration File

Configuration files should contain only the values the end users will need to configure. Everything else should be in code. One problem with WCF is the size of the configuration files. They contain so much data they are unreadable. Its such a problem that Microsoft provides the WCF Configuration Editor to ease developers pain when […]

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