Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Dino Esposito's upcoming book, Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 [Microsoft Press, ISBN: 0735620245]. It has been edited for length and format to fit the ...