system.web Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
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>
Attributes and Elements
The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.
Attributes
None.
Child Elements
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Configures anonymous identification for application authorization. This is required to identify entities that are not authenticated when authorization is required. |
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Configures ASP.NET authentication support. |
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Configures ASP.NET authorization support. |
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Configures the settings for the browser capabilities component. |
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Configures the cache settings for a Web application. |
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Adds aliases for specific user agents to an internal collection of user agent aliases. |
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Contains all compilation settings that are used by ASP.NET. |
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Defines custom error messages for an ASP.NET application. |
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Defines configuration settings that are used to support the deployment of a Web application. |
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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. |
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Configures the globalization settings of an application. |
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Configures an application for health monitoring. |
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Defines configuration settings that control the behavior of the application hosting environment. |
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Configures properties for cookies that are used by a Web application. |
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Maps incoming URL requests to IHttpHandler classes. |
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Adds, removes, or clears HTTP modules within an application. |
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Configures ASP.NET HTTP run-time settings. This section can be declared at the machine, site, application, or subdirectory level. |
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Controls the application identity of the Web application. |
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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. |
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Configures parameters for managing and authenticating user accounts for ASP.NET membership. |
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Defines adapter sets that map ASP.NET mobile controls to corresponding adapters within the system.web section of the Web.config file. |
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Identifies page-specific configuration settings. |
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Configures the ASP.NET process model settings on Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server systems. |
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Configures parameters for managing user values by using the ASP.NET profile. |
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Configures an application for role management. This element is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0. |
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Defines valid mappings of named security levels to policy files. This section can be declared at the machine, site, or application levels. |
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Configures page view-state settings for an ASP.NET application. |
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Configures the session-state module. |
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Configures the navigation infrastructure support for configuring, storing, and rendering site navigation. |
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Configures the ASP.NET trace service. |
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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. |
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Defines a mapping that hides the real URL and maps it to a more user friendly URL. |
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Specifies the shared location of the client script files. |
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Specifies a Web Parts personalization provider, sets personalization authorizations, and adds custom classes that extend the WebPartTransformer class for use by Web Parts connections. |
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Controls the settings of XML Web services that are created using ASP.NET. |
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Configures XHTML 1.0–conforming control rendering. |
Parent Elements
| Element | Description |
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configuration |
Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications. |
See Also
Concepts
ASP.NET Configuration Overview