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Files that configure the initial settings for some computer programs.

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Using App.config to set strongly-typed variables

I'm a C# novice running .NET 3.5, and I'd like to store a bunch of application default values in App.config, as the settings may vary by server environment (e.g. development, staging, production). What I want to do is similar to what's described in…
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How to create an application-specific config file for TypeScript?

I am working on a web application using TypeScript. For some parts of the application, I would like to define a simple configuration file that specifies certain aspects (for example the color palette). How would I create such a configuration file?…
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2 php.ini files

I have found that: When I type the following on terminal: php -i | grep php.ini I get the output: The Loaded Configuration file is @ /etc/php5/cli/php.ini However, from phpinfo(), I get to see: The loaded ini file is @…
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Django: how to set log level to INFO or DEBUG

I tried to change the debug level to DEBUG in Django because I want to add some debug messages to my code. It seems to have no effect. My logging configuration: LOGGING = { 'version': 1, 'disable_existing_loggers': False, 'formatters':…
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What order of reading configuration values?

For the python program I am writing I would like to give the opportunity of configuring it in three different ways. Environment variables, configuration files and command line arguments. Logically I think command line arguments should always have…
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Get the App.Config of another Exe

I have an exe with an App.Config file. Now I want to create a wrapper dll around the exe in order to consume some of the functionalities. The question is how can I access the app.config property in the exe from the wrapper dll? Maybe I should be a…
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WiX overwrites config files during setup. How can I avoid this?

I'm using WiX to create a windows installer. Unfortunately my installer overwrites a config file on every update. What I really want is, that the installer only creates the file if it is not found. Thanks and regards, forki
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python single configuration file

I am developing a project that requires a single configuration file whose data is used by multiple modules. My question is: what is the common approach to that? should i read the configuration file from each of my modules (files) or is there any…
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How to serve images with nginx

I am completely new to nginx and I am asked to find a way to serve Map Tiles that are separated according to the zoom levels. The image file structure is like ~/data/images/7/65/70.png where 7 is the zoom level, 65 and 70 are the lon-lat values. The…
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Keeping dot files synched across machines?

Like most *nix people, I tend to play with my tools and get them configured just the way that I like them. This was all well and good until recently. As I do more and more work, I tend to log onto more and more machines, and have more and more stuff…
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WCF Error - The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded

My Setup: ASP.NET client hosted in IIS Express WCF Service hosted in Console Application Running Visual Studio.NET 2012 in Admin mode I am trying to return 2 List objects from a WCF service. My setup WORKS FINE when I return just 1 List objects.…
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make NLog.config file load the file from (d:\dev) instead of "\bin\debug\"

I used Nlog for logging purpose in a particular DLL. The DLL is then used in another application (it is loaded dynamically using System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(path + a.dll)). I manually placed Nlog.dll and Nlog.config files in Path folder and…
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How to create an .INI file to store some settings in Java?

I want to create an ini file to store some settings for my application. Is it a good idea to find where the jar file is located and create an ini file there? If yes, then how can I find the location of the jar file? But if you know a better…
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CloudConfigurationManager does not pick up ApplicationSettings from app.config

I have a library containing some Azure helper classes. Inside these helper classes I obtain settings such as the Azure account name and key. When running in Azure these settings are picked up from the cloud configuration file (cscfg). This all works…
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Proper implementation of global configuration

My goal is to have global constants in a C++ game I'm working on (to represent some graphics info and the like). My current implementation is to toss them all in a .h and include them everywhere. This works, except that every time I change a…
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