Generate Visual Guard configuration files
How to generate or edit the Visual Guard configuration files
- Information about access to the repository (repository path,
database connection string …). - The authentication mode supported by the repository.
- The support of anonymous session.
- The Visual Guard unique identifier of the application.
- The duration of the cache.
- The support of Windows Groups
- Each time you need to change the Visual Guard repository connected to your
application. - When you change the authentication mode supported by the
repository. - When you enable or disable the anonymous session.
- When you change the information about the connection to the repository (server,
schema or database name, credentials, repository path, …) - When you create a new version of the application by using the console and you want
to access to this new version from your application.
Generate the configuration files of an application
- Open the Visual Guard Console.
- Connect to the Visual Guard repository to which the application must be
connected. - Right-click on the application node and select the “Generate Visual Guard configuration files” option.
- Select the directory containing the assemblies of the application.
Edit the configuration file
- Open the Visual Guard Console.
- Click on the menu option “File > Edit Configuration File”.
- Select the main Visual Guard configuration file of your application (by default
this file is named “VisualGuardConfiguration.exe.config”). - Modify the properties of your configuration.
- Click on the “OK” button to validate the modification.