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Pictorial representation of ASP.NET Application Life Cycle in Depth

How to encrypt connection string in web.config . In order to not expose connection string to outside world.

Protecting Connection Strings and Other Configuration Information  (C#) Introduction Configuration information for ASP.NET applications is commonly stored in an XML file named  Web.config . Over the course of these tutorials we have updated the  Web.config  a handful of times. When creating the  Northwind  Typed DataSet in the  first tutorial , for example, connection string information was automatically added to  Web.config  in the  <connectionStrings>  section. Later, in the  Master Pages and Site Navigation  tutorial, we manually updated Web.config , adding a  <pages>  element indicating that all of the ASP.NET pages in our project should use the DataWebControls  Theme. Since  Web.config  may contain sensitive data such as connection strings, it is important that the contents of Web.config  be kept safe and hidden from unauthorized viewers. By default, any HTTP re...