Application Settings

From: Glenn Thimmes (glennthi_at_nospam_msn.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:49:15 -0600

I posted this question in the ASP.NET forum and did not get an answer, so I
thought this might be a better place.

I am needing to read and write application settings from within my ASP.NET
application. My web.config is not an option since I need to be able to write
settings as well. My database is not an option either as the database
location itself is one of the settings.

I've been trying to work with Isolated Storage, but it is obviously designed
to be user specific. I've attempted using Impersonation to load the same
settings for every session, but this doesn't really work. If I impersonate
my user account it works. If I impersonate the Administrator account it
works. But if I create a new user account on the machine and try to
impersonate that account, I just get the following error when trying to get
the isolated storage:

Unable to create the store directory.[The system cannot find the file
specified. ]

I've even made this new account an administrator, but I still get the same
results.

 Is there a better way to do what I am trying to do? Isn't there
some simple method of saving and retrieving application wide settings in an
ASP.NET environment? I also should mention that it is required that I use
windows authentication for this site. When I turn that off, the IUSR account
works just great for saving and loading settings. But unfortunately I must
authenticate each use in order to use domain security for using Reporting
Services.

Thank you for any suggestions,

-Glenn Thimmes

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