Best free web.config editor?

Question

What GUI can I use to edit my web.config files?

I'm looking for a specialized editor with GUIs instead of XML.

For instance:

• I want to add an httphandler
• I click a button "Add httphandler"
• Pick the one I want, etc.

Sort of like the WCF configuration tool for WCF.

Answer 1

Here are some options:

• Notepad (Native to Windows)
• Wordpad (Native to Windows)
• Notepad++ (Free)
• SciTE(Free)
• UltraEdit32 (Trial)
• Serna Free (Free) *This may be closest to your requirement

Answer 2

My favorites are Visual Studio and Notepad, depending on whether or not I have the solution open.

Answer 3

Visual Studio would probably be the best application to use to edit web.configs since that's the enviroment the file type is used in. You can easily download Microsoft® Visual Web Developer® 2008 Express Edition from Microsoft's site using the web platform installer.

Secondly, Expression Web is a tool that is used to create .net websites and should be able to easily edit web.config files. You can download a trial version of the software from here.

Last since you're asking for a free tool that can edit XML based web.config files, you might want to try out the XML Notepad 2007 editor. This tool was designed by Microsoft specifically for editing xml files. You should be able to download the editor from Microsoft Downloads.

Hope this selection helps you out some.

Answer 4

Any text editor, it's an XML-formatted file, so should be quite human-readable.

Answer 5

If you're looking for a graphical configuration tool that doesn't expose the XML, you're going to be somewhat limited.

IIS Manager has limited support for editing configuration files for ASP.NET 2.0 sites. Additionally, if you are using Enterprise Library in the web app, there is (or was, last time I used it) an Enterprise Library Configuration tool which shipped with it, and allowed some GUI-based editing of the Enterprise Library-specific sections.

Otherwise you're pretty much in a mode of using your favorite text editor. If you don't feel like the weight of Visual Studio, I'm a big fan of ConTEXT.

Answer 6

The best option is to use Visual Studio. Alternatively you could use Notepad but be careful because it is in XML format.

If you need more about the ASP.NET configuration file, refer to the link below:

http://asp.net-informations.com/configurations/asp-configurations.htm