June 10, 2012 It’s highly recommended to encrypt your application’s app.config file. Heart Little Queen on this page. App.config contains connections strings that present a potential vulnerability if it is not secured.

Follow the example on how to encrypt your program’s app.config file. Encrypt: If Not cs IsNothing Then If Not cs.ElementInformation.IsLocked Then If Not cs.SectionInformation. A Different Corner Midi File on this page. IsProtected Then cs.SectionInformation.ProtectSection('DataProtectionConfigurationProvider') cs.SectionInformation.ForceSave = True config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full) End If End If End If Now you can actually provide functionality in within your application to decrypt the app.config file OR you can copy the source of your application and recreate the project just to achieve decrypt functionality. You can’t create another project and then write the code just to decrypt config file of another project. Because in that way, you need to actually access another assemblies config file and.NET would not allow you to do that! So the best way would be copy the project and rename this copied one to (may be) “Source Decryptor”.

Now you can decrypt it. Decrypt: Dim config As Configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None) Dim cs As ConfigurationSection cs = config.ConnectionStrings If Not cs IsNothing Then If Not cs.ElementInformation.IsLocked Then If cs.SectionInformation.IsProtected Then cs.SectionInformation.UnprotectSection() cs.SectionInformation.ForceSave = True config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full) End If End If End If Refer to.aspx for more information! Little bit about me! Hi, I'm Parth Dave. I like to share my experience and knowledge with everyone.

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