Can I use more than 1 web config file ?

Murari Jha

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Can I use more than 1 web config file if yes than what will be profit of it

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Rajeev Punhani9y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Murari,
Yes we can have more than one web.config in an application.We use this when we have application divided into modules and each module is having seperate configuration(eg-user and admin will have seperate functionality so we seperate them and use different web.config) .Please see the below links.
http://www.aspdotnet-suresh.com/2011/04/how-to-use-multiple-webconfig-files-in.html
https://www.codeproject.com/kb/aspnet/multiplewebconfig.aspx
Subash9y ago
Yes we can use more than 1 web config.For each project you add separatly
Ramesh Palanivel9y ago
Hi Murari,

Try this Link, It may hep you,

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11034/Working-with-more-than-one-Web-config-file

http://www.aspdotnet-suresh.com/2011/04/how-to-use-multiple-webconfig-files-in.html

https://dzone.com/articles/working-more-one-webconfig

http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.in/2009/03/web-deployment-webconfig-transformation_23.html
Nitin Sontakke9y ago
In fact, it is other way around.

The answer is yes, of course, you can, but then why would you do it?

But then again there is more to it. Take log4net component as an example. It has it's own config file which has several configuration settings, say around 10 or so.

Now anyone using this component has two options. Either have all of these log4net settings mentioned in his / her project which will make web.config file bigger and complex to read for someone maintaining the code later.

Or create a separate config for log4net component and just mention that file's name in projects web.config. The log4net component is smart enough to go to web.config, see config file name and read settings from that file.

This is sort of abstraction you can implement on web.config level.