The .NET Framework makes configuration settings a breeze with XML-based configurations. It also supplies the means necessary for accessing these settings through Collection classes. The actual ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to access configuration settings in your project's appsettings.json file and then make those settings available throughout your application as IOptions objects. But ...

Computers use video cards to render graphics. Gaming and multimedia applications contain code that tells the video card what images it needs the card to create on the screen. NVIDIA video cards ...

In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its <appsettings> section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects. In ...

As part of your installation of a wireless LAN (WLAN), you need to configure the wireless access points in a way that best meets your customer's requirements. At a minimum, review the configuration ...

Wireless networks can be very convenient for businesses as they eliminate reliance on Ethernet cabling. Using Active Directory and Group Policy to configure and support Wireless in the enterprise can ...

ASP.NET Core configuration providers read configuration data from common sources such as JSON files and databases. But you can use other sources by creating custom configuration providers. We use ...

The role of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, server is a simple yet critical one. DHCP provides the IP address configuration to workstations, laptops, phones and tablets connected to ...

Do you ever like to make sure that certain device settings are enabled prior to entering a particular application? If you're constantly streaming videos for example, it's highly likely that you're ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of enabling configuration storage for phpMyAdmin to gain added security features for the web-based MySQL tool. If you’re about to install a new instance of ...