using only one web.config file or pointing to one web.config file from multiple projects in a solution

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I have a solution and under this solution there are 4 web service projects. Each of them has a separate web.config file of its own. However I have only one data access layer and connection string is in this project's web.config file. I would like all the projects use this projects web.config file. I do not want to define the same connection string in every project's web.config file. How do I do that?

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Posted 22-Feb-11 0:49am

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Sunasara Imdadhusen 22-Feb-11 7:11am

Good question!!

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Dylan Morley · Answer 1 · 2011-02-22T01:21:00

At deployment time, you can use configuration inheritance

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178685.aspx[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dtbwsx8s%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^]

You would have to structure your site in a certain way in order for the inheritance to come into effect

e.g

Application Root
Web.config
----Service1
----Service2
----Service3
----Service4

If you created a virtual directory and placed your web.config in that root folder, then create virtual directories from the root directory - they would inherit the settings defined in application root