ASP.NET Syntax   ASP.NET Configuration Sections

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Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration section and contains configuration elements that configure ASP.NET Web applications and control how the applications behave.

<system.web>
   <anonymousIdentification>
   <authentication>
   <authorization>
   <browserCaps>
   <caching>
   <clientTarget>
   <compilation>
   <customErrors>
   <deployment>
   <deviceFilters>
   <globalization>
   <healthMonitoring>
   <hostingEnvironment>
   <httpCookies>
   <httpHandlers>
   <httpModules>
   <httpRuntime>
   <identity>
   <machineKey>
   <membership>
   <mobileControls>
   <pages>
   <processModel>
   <profile>
   <roleManager>
   <securityPolicy>
   <sessionPageState>
   <sessionState>
   <siteMap>
   <trace>
   <trust>
   <urlMappings>
   <webControls>
   <webParts>
   <webServices>
   <xhtmlConformance>
</system.web>

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

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Element	Description
anonymousIdentification Element	Configures anonymous identification for application authorization. This is required to identify entities that are not authenticated when authorization is required.
authentication Element	Configures ASP.NET authentication support.
authorization Element	Configures ASP.NET authorization support.
browserCaps Element	Configures the settings for the browser capabilities component.
caching Element	Configures the cache settings for a Web application.
clientTarget Element	Adds aliases for specific user agents to an internal collection of user agent aliases.
compilation Element	Contains all compilation settings that are used by ASP.NET.
customErrors Element	Defines custom error messages for an ASP.NET application.
deployment Element	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the deployment of a Web application.
deviceFilters Element	Specifies a device or a device class in the ASP.NET MobileCapabilities class based on the user agent or browser. A page or application developer can use a device filter to override control properties or to define blocks of content or templates to change layout and appearance.
globalization Element	Configures the globalization settings of an application.
healthMonitoring Element	Configures an application for health monitoring.
hostingEnvironment Element	Defines configuration settings that control the behavior of the application hosting environment.
httpCookies Element	Configures properties for cookies that are used by a Web application.
httpHandlers Element	Maps incoming URL requests to IHttpHandler classes.
httpModules Element	Adds, removes, or clears HTTP modules within an application.
httpRuntime Element	Configures ASP.NET HTTP run-time settings. This section can be declared at the machine, site, application, or subdirectory level.
identity Element	Controls the application identity of the Web application.
machineKey Element	Configures keys to use for encryption and decryption of Forms authentication cookie data. This section allows you to configure a validation key that performs message authentication checks on view-state data and Forms authentication tickets. This section can be declared at the machine, site, or application levels but not at the subdirectory level.
membership Element	Configures parameters for managing and authenticating user accounts for ASP.NET membership.
mobileControls Element	Defines adapter sets that map ASP.NET mobile controls to corresponding adapters within the system.web section of the Web.config file.
pages Element	Identifies page-specific configuration settings.
processModel Element	Configures the ASP.NET process model settings on Internet Information Services ( IIS ) Web server systems.
profile Element	Configures parameters for managing user values by using the ASP.NET profile.
roleManager Element	Configures an application for role management. This element is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.
securityPolicy Element	Defines valid mappings of named security levels to policy files. This section can be declared at the machine, site, or application levels.
sessionPageState Element	Configures page view-state settings for an ASP.NET application.
sessionState Element	Configures the session-state module.
siteMap Element	Configures the navigation infrastructure support for configuring, storing, and rendering site navigation.
trace Element	Configures the ASP.NET trace service.
trust Element	Configures the code access security permission set that is used to run a particular application. This section can be declared at the machine, site, and application levels.
urlMappings Element	Defines a mapping that hides the real URL and maps it to a more user friendly URL.
webControls Element	Specifies the shared location of the client script files.
webParts	Specifies a Web Parts personalization provider, sets personalization authorizations, and adds custom classes that extend the WebPartTransformer class for use by Web Parts connections.
webServices Element	Controls the settings of XML Web services that are created using ASP.NET.
xhtmlConformance Element	Configures XHTML 1.0-conforming control rendering.

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications.

ASP.NET Configuration