The book makes references to machine.config and sections that I should be able to find inside the file. My machine.config doesn't seem to have any of them!

On page 250 it says that I should be able to look in my machine.config file and find a <roleManager> section, but I don't have one! Also, starting on page 286, there are numerous references to various sections of the machine.config file. Again, I don't have any of them!

Help!

If you have administratrive privledges you can edit the machine.config file. Determine which declarations are recognized via MSDN [1] by following the links at the borrom of the page.


[1] http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;815179

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The issue I was having was that the book referred to specific entries that it said were in machine.config, but they were not.

Apparently using machine.config.comments as a starting point is better, though there are a few errors in this file that will need to be corrected before it can be used.

Make sure that the appSettings section in machine.config is _not_ commented out. It is by default for the sample it shows. This can confuse you.