How to read/write administration.config

Kanwaljeet Singla — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:00 +0000

IIS7 configuration system understands machine.config, web.config and applicationHost.config but does not handle administration.config natively. This means reading and writing administration.config is little difficult. If you use AhAdmin directly and call GetAdminSection for a section defined in administration.config, it will throw a configuration error for all configuration paths saying that it couldn’t find the section in the configuration file. Easiest way you can work with administration.config is by using Microsoft.Web.Administration (MWA). ServerManager::GetAdministrationConfiguration gives you a Configuration object which represents administration.config. Below is a sample program which uses MWA to print UI module providers registered in administration.config.

class Program
{

Feature delegation of custom module in UI

Kanwaljeet Singla — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:31:00 +0000

I was at TechEd developers last week and one question that came up was what it takes for custom modules to show up in "Features Delegation" UI. I had image copyright walkthrough setup on the machine and in spite of having the custom schema xml and <section> entry in applicationHost.config, imageCopyright was not shown in "Features Delegation" UI. I did some more investigations on it and following is what it takes for UI to offer delegation to a custom module.

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How to read/write administration.config

Feature delegation of custom module in UI