How to update web.config file of ASP.NET using desktop application

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I have one desktop application to update the website whenever new release comes using this desktop app I want to update "Web.config" file of website programmatically.

Please any one suggest best way for this.

What I have tried:

I tried using Configuration configuration = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~"); but in desktop System.Web.Configuration namespace not found.

I have other way using read as xml and than proceed but its not efficient way for Add/Update/Delete configuration tag at any level.

Posted 29-Aug-18 0:41am

Navneet Bhalodiya

Updated 29-Aug-18 1:12am

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 1 · 2018-08-29T01:13:00

There is no support in asp.net for allowing this to happen remotely. If you have file access to the server then do it as a normal file copy, so copy the new config file to

\\servername\sharename\web.config

or

\\ipaddress\c$\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config

or whatever your access is. If your desktop has no file access to the web server then the next easiest approach would be to have an upload function on your website that takes an uploaded web.config file and overwrites the one it has with the uploaded one. Your desktop app would then upload the file to the url programatically using WebClient or whatever. You'd want to consider the security implications of this too.