DevExpress and Web.config (and general question about Web.config usage)

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2/24/2015 2:58:33 AM
barcoder84
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DevExpress and Web.config (and general question about Web.config usage)

Hello mojoPortal community,

I have started working with mojoPortal recently and now we are trying to use some DevExpress components in our custom features. Apparently it is required to add some lines to Web.config to register ASPxHttpHandlerModule https://documentation.devexpress.com/#AspNet/CustomDocument6769 . After doing this in the Web.config of the mojoPortal.Web project it works and I added a DexExpress button to my feature as test. But I do realize that changing things in the 'global' Web.config is not good as it will be overwritten when updating the source from Mercurial right?

So actually my question is how to properly deal with modifications in Web.config?

The webproject of our features also has a Web.config but if I understand correctly whenever I run the mojoPortal.Web project the Web.config in the feature project does nothing. My second question is what is the function of Web.config in projects outside mojoPortal.Web?

Thanks in advance.

 

2/24/2015 7:16:41 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: DevExpress and Web.config (and general question about Web.config usage)

in production when upgrading you would need to keep a backup of your web.config file and restore customizations after upgrading.

for development you would need to do the same thing if updating from mercurial, you would discard local changes pull new changes and update then re-apply the local custom changes. there is no way around that.

best bet is only pull new changes if you know there are new changes that you want, ie you could keep an eye on our history page for new changes and update less frequently to reduce the work in changing the web.config

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