BundleTransformer LibSass Could not be found error - asp.net

I want to use BundleTransformer. I've followed all the steps stated in the docs, but still don't work.
I've installed:
BundleTransformer.SassAndScss
BundleTransformer.Autoprefixer
LisSassHost
LibSassHost.Native.win-x64
JavaScriptEngineSwitcher.V8
Here is my config:
<bundleTransformer xmlns="http://tempuri.org/BundleTransformer.Configuration.xsd">
<autoprefixer cascade="true">
<jsEngine name="V8JsEngine" />
<browsers>
<add conditionalExpression="> 5%" />
<add conditionalExpression="last 2 versions" />
</browsers>
</autoprefixer>
<sassAndScss>
<includePaths>
<add path=""></add>
</includePaths>
</sassAndScss>
<core>
<css defaultPostProcessors="UrlRewritingCssPostProcessor,AutoprefixCssPostProcessor">
<translators>
<add name="NullTranslator" type="BundleTransformer.Core.Translators.NullTranslator, BundleTransformer.Core" enabled="false" />
<add name="SassAndScssTranslator" type="BundleTransformer.SassAndScss.Translators.SassAndScssTranslator, BundleTransformer.SassAndScss" />
</translators>
<postProcessors>
<add name="UrlRewritingCssPostProcessor" type="BundleTransformer.Core.PostProcessors.UrlRewritingCssPostProcessor, BundleTransformer.Core" useInDebugMode="false" />
<add name="AutoprefixCssPostProcessor" type="BundleTransformer.Autoprefixer.PostProcessors.AutoprefixCssPostProcessor, BundleTransformer.Autoprefixer" useInDebugMode="true" />
</postProcessors>
<minifiers>
<add name="NullMinifier" type="BundleTransformer.Core.Minifiers.NullMinifier, BundleTransformer.Core" />
</minifiers>
<fileExtensions>
<add fileExtension=".css" assetTypeCode="Css" />
<add fileExtension=".sass" assetTypeCode="Sass" />
<add fileExtension=".scss" assetTypeCode="Scss" />
</fileExtensions>
</css>
<js>
<translators>
<add name="NullTranslator" type="BundleTransformer.Core.Translators.NullTranslator, BundleTransformer.Core" enabled="false" />
</translators>
<minifiers>
<add name="NullMinifier" type="BundleTransformer.Core.Minifiers.NullMinifier, BundleTransformer.Core" />
</minifiers>
<fileExtensions>
<add fileExtension=".js" assetTypeCode="JavaScript" />
</fileExtensions>
</js>
</core>
</bundleTransformer>
And registering of V8 engine:
// JsEngineSwitcherConfig.js
public class JsEngineSwitcherConfig {
public static void Configure(JsEngineSwitcher engineSwitcher) {
engineSwitcher
.EngineFactories
.AddV8();
engineSwitcher.DefaultEngineName = V8JsEngine.EngineName;
}
}
// Global.asax
JsEngineSwitcherConfig.Configure(JsEngineSwitcher.Instance);
After some fixed troubles, my last error is this:
I Think this has something to do with:
For correct working of the LibSass Host requires msvcp140.dll assembly
from the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.
But, I don't know how to require that dll.
Or indeed I don't know where the real problem is, I'll appreciate if anyone can help please.

Well, after trying a little, I just installed LibSassHost.Native.win-x86, and it worked.
Now I have the two packages x64 and x86, everything is working fine.

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Unable to add customAppSettingsGroup inside my console application app.config

I am working on an asp.net console application , and i am trying to add a custom app settings section to encrypt it, as follow:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<customAppSettingsGroup>
<customAppSettings>
<add key="KeyOne" value="****" />
</customAppSettings>
</customAppSettingsGroup>
<appSettings>
<add key="ConcurrentRequests" value="100" />
<add key="ApiLimit" value="100" />
<add key="FullScanDay" value="Tuesday" />
<add key="logsFilePath" value="C:\logslogs\" />
<add key="TPSFilePathAndName" value="C:\ctps_ns.txt" />
<add key="PhoneNumberLength" value="11" />
</appSettings>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1" />
</startup>
</configuration>
but when i run the console application i will get this error:-
ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized configuration section customAppSettingsGroup.
any advice?
EDIT-
I tried this inside my app.config:-
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="customAppSettingsGroup">
<section name="customAppSettings"
type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler,System" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<customAppSettingsGroup>
<customAppSettings>
<add key="KeyOne" value="****" />
</customAppSettings>
</customAppSettingsGroup>
<appSettings>
<add key="ConcurrentRequests" value="100" />
<add key="ApiLimit" value="100" />
<add key="FullScanDay" value="Tuesday" />
<add key="logsFilePath" value="C:\logslogs\" />
<add key="TPSFilePathAndName" value="C:\ctps_ns.txt" />
<add key="PhoneNumberLength" value="11" />
</appSettings>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1" />
</startup>
</configuration>
but when i try to access the section using this code:-
NameValueCollection settings = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("customAppSettingsGroup/customAppSettings") as System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection;
i got this exception:-
Could not load file or assembly 'System' or one of its dependencies.
The system cannot find the file specified.'
Try it this way
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="customAppSettingsGroup">
<section name="customAppSettings"
type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler,System" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<customAppSettingsGroup>
<customAppSettings>
<add key="KeyOne" value="****" />
</customAppSettings>
</customAppSettingsGroup>
<appSettings>
<add key="ConcurrentRequests" value="100" />
<add key="ApiLimit" value="100" />
<add key="FullScanDay" value="Tuesday" />
<add key="logsFilePath" value="C:\logslogs\" />
<add key="TPSFilePathAndName" value="C:\ctps_ns.txt" />
<add key="PhoneNumberLength" value="11" />
</appSettings>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1" />
</startup>
</configuration>

Exceptions not showing up in Application Insights

We've just installed Application Insights on our server.
Everything seems to be working fine, but exceptions thrown on the server is not showing up in the portal.
We're logging exceptions with our custom tool, but we wanted to be able to see them in AI too, especially the unhandled ones.
It's a plain installation of the AI agent, on a Windows Server 2012.
ApplicationInsigts.confg:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ApplicationInsights xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ApplicationInsights/2013/Settings" schemaVersion="2014-05-30">
<!--
Learn more about Application Insights configuration with ApplicationInsights.config here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=392530
-->
<TelemetryChannel>
<DeveloperMode>false</DeveloperMode>
</TelemetryChannel>
<TelemetryModules>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Tracing.DiagnosticsTelemetryModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.RequestTracking.TelemetryModules.WebRequestTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.RequestTracking.TelemetryModules.WebExceptionTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.RequestTracking.TelemetryModules.WebSessionTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.RequestTracking.TelemetryModules.WebUserTrackingTelemetryModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.RuntimeTelemetry.RemoteDependencyModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.RuntimeTelemetry" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.RuntimeTelemetry.ApmcModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.RuntimeTelemetry" />
</TelemetryModules>
<ContextInitializers>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.ComponentContextInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.DeviceContextInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.AzureRoleEnvironmentContextInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
</ContextInitializers>
<TelemetryInitializers>
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Core.TimestampPropertyInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.NetBiosMachineNameTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.OperatingSystemTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.ProcessIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.ProcessNameTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.ThreadIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Contexts.ThreadLanguageTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.TelemetryInitializers.WebOperationNameTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.TelemetryInitializers.WebOperationIdTelemetryInitializer, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" />
</TelemetryInitializers>
<InstrumentationKey>....</InstrumentationKey>
<ResourceID>.....</ResourceID>
<StatusMonitor>0.10.0-build23829</StatusMonitor>
</ApplicationInsights>
There is a blog post that describes what is collected out of the box and what you need to do in other cases: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/12/12/application-insights-exception-telemetry.aspx
AI will not see the exceptions that you may have handled in any global exception handlers. I suspect that may be contributing to what you find. If you do use global exception handlers, you could use the TrackException from AI SDK in the handler, that will then send them to AI.

Right way to Handle URL Errors with %20 and %3F in ASP.NET 4.0

90% of the pages on my website follows this syntax
http://www.thisismysite.com/ShowProduct.aspx?ID=29
http://www.thisismysite.com/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=58
I was checking Google webmaster tools and saw that my site is generating errors for the following url's
http://www.thisismysite.com/ShowProduct.aspx%20ID=50
http://www.thisismysite.com/BrowseProducts.aspx%20CatID=58
http://www.thisismysite.com/ShowProduct.aspx%3FID%3D900
http://www.thisismysite.com/ShowProduct.aspx%3FID=727
http://www.thisismysite.com/ShowProduct.aspx%3FID=64
http://www.thisismysite.com/GetProductsRss.aspx%3FCatID%3D60
When I browsed these url's, I got the error
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An exception occurred while processing your request. Additionally, another exception occurred while executing the custom error page for the first exception. The request has been terminated.
How can I fix these errors? I know about the relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" but isn't that a hack? What's the proper way to handle these url's
A portion of my web.config looks like this
<system.web>
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms cookieless="UseCookies" loginUrl="~/AccessDenied.aspx" name="TBFORMAUTH" />
</authentication>
<pages theme="TemplateM" masterPageFile="~/Template.master" maintainScrollPositionOnPostBack="false" validateRequest="false" enableEventValidation="false" viewStateEncryptionMode="Never" controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" clientIDMode="AutoID">
</pages>
<!--
Possible modes are "transitional", "strict", and "legacy".
<xhtmlConformance mode="transitional" />
-->
<compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.0">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Transactions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C53R34E089" /></assemblies></compilation>
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="15" />
<roleManager enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName="TBROLES" defaultProvider="TB_RoleProvider">
<providers>
<add connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="/" name="TB_RoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f22f50a3a" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
<anonymousIdentification cookieless="UseCookies" enabled="false" />
<profile defaultProvider="TB_ProfileProvider">
<providers>
<add name="TB_ProfileProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="/" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f64f1d50a3a" />
</providers>
<properties>
<add name="FirstName" type="String" />
<add name="LastName" type="String" />
<add name="Gender" type="String" />
<add name="BirthDate" type="DateTime" />
<add name="Occupation" type="String" />
<add name="Website" type="String" />
<group name="Forum">
<add name="Posts" type="Int32" />
<add name="AvatarUrl" type="String" />
<add name="Signature" type="String" />
</group>
<group name="Address">
<add name="Street" type="String" />
<add name="PostalCode" type="String" />
<add name="City" type="String" />
<add name="State" type="String" />
<add name="Country" type="String" />
</group>
<group name="Contacts">
<add name="Phone" type="String" />
<add name="Fax" type="String" />
</group>
<group name="Preferences">
<add name="Theme" type="String" allowAnonymous="false" />
<add name="Culture" type="String" defaultValue="en-US" />
</group>
</properties>
</profile>
<webParts enableExport="true">
<personalization defaultProvider="TB_PersonalizationProvider">
<providers>
<add name="TB_PersonalizationProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" type="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.SqlPersonalizationProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</providers>
<authorization>
<allow roles="Administrators,Editors" verbs="enterSharedScope" />
</authorization>
</personalization>
</webParts>
<machineKey validationKey="287C5D125D6B7E7223E1F719E3D58D17BB9677030175D6B7E7223E1F719E3D58D17BBC7E59800B5D4C2EDD5B5D6B7E7223E1F719E3D58D17BBBAF260D9D374A74C76CB741803" decryptionKey="5C1D8BD9DF3E1B4E1D05C1D8BD9DF616E0D5C1D8BD9DF" validation="SHA1" />
<customErrors defaultRedirect="~/Error.aspx" redirectMode="ResponseRewrite">
</customErrors>
<urlMappings>
<add url="~/articles/beer.aspx" mappedUrl="~/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=28" />
<add url="~/articles/events.aspx" mappedUrl="~/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=41" />
<add url="~/articles/news.aspx" mappedUrl="~/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=31" />
<add url="~/articles/photos.aspx" mappedUrl="~/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=40" />
<add url="~/articles/blog.aspx" mappedUrl="~/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=29" />
<add url="~/articles/faq.aspx" mappedUrl="~/BrowseProducts.aspx?CatID=42" />
</urlMappings>
<healthMonitoring heartbeatInterval="10800">
<providers>
<remove name="SqlWebEventProvider" />
<add name="SqlWebEventProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" buffer="false" bufferMode="Notification" maxEventDetailsLength="1073741823" type="System.Web.Management.SqlWebEventProvider,System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7fse350a3a" />
</providers>
<eventMappings>
<add name="TB Events" type="MB.Customs.WebCustomEvent, MB.Customs.CustomEvents" />
</eventMappings>
<rules>
<clear />
<add name="TB Events" eventName="TB Events" provider="SqlWebEventProvider" profile="Critical" />
<add name="All Errors" eventName="All Errors" provider="SqlWebEventProvider" profile="Critical" />
<add name="Failure Audits" eventName="Failure Audits" provider="SqlWebEventProvider" profile="Critical" />
<add name="Heartbeats" eventName="Heartbeats" provider="SqlWebEventProvider" profile="Critical" />
</rules>
</healthMonitoring>
</system.web>
Because these external links are URL encoded, ASP.NET will try to find files or routes with that name. You could try messing around with the routing framework to be smart about looking for URLs that start with the routes in your application. However, this would probably mean each page needs additional logic within them to parse the improperly encoded requests. Another solution is to add custom error handling for the 404 that ASP.NET will generate when you know how to best redirect the user.
Probably the best way you could handle this error would be to intercept errors in your Applications Global.asax.cs file. You could try something like the following in your Application_Error method:
protected void Application_Error(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
bool httpError = Context.Error is HttpException;
if (httpError && ((HttpException)Context.Error).GetHttpCode() == 404)
{
// Convert the path to lowercase. This should ONLY be used to make finding indices easier, but NOT used when generating the redirect path since case could be important.
string absolutePath = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.ToLowerInvariant();
int extensionLength = ".aspx".Length;
int questionMarkIdx = absolutePath.IndexOf("?");
int encodedQuestionMarkIdx = absolutePath.IndexOf(".aspx%3F") + extensionLength;
int encodedSpaceIdx = absolutePath.IndexOf(".aspx%20") + extensionLength;
// Handle encoded question mark
if ((questionMarkIdx == -1) && (encodedQuestionMarkIdx > extensionLength))
{
string correctPath = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Substring(0, absolutePath.Length - encodedQuestionMarkIdx);
// Add 3 here to exclude the "%3F" in the result
string encodedQueryString = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Substring(encodedQuestionMarkIdx + 3);
Response.Redirect(correctPath + "?" + HttpUtility.UrlDecode(encodedQueryString));
}
// Handle encoded space
if ((questionMarkIdx == -1) && (encodedSpaceIdx > extensionLength))
{
string correctPath = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Substring(0, absolutePath.Length - encodedSpaceIdx);
// Add 3 here to exclude the "%20" in the result
string encodedQueryString = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Substring(encodedSpaceIdx + 3);
Response.Redirect(correctPath + "?" + HttpUtility.UrlDecode(encodedQueryString));
}
}
}
I wrote this answer on a non-Windows machine, so I don't have a way to test it but this should be enough to get you in the general direction you should go in solving this problem.
The important point is to make a distinction between 404s that happened because the URL was improperly encoded and 404s that happened because of some other generic reason you're unable to handle. You only want to handle 404s due to URL encoding issues. All other errors and other 404 messages should be propagated back to your default handlers.
Also an important thing to check is what the referrer is on these requests to bad URLs. You should look in Google Webmaster tools to see if they tell you. If they don't you need to check your logs (or ensure you make some!) to find out where they're coming from. Once you know the source you should contact the site owner to let them know they're serving out bad URLs. Trying to compensate for broken external links is not foolproof and is a very difficult challenge that can become a full-time job on its own, so you're best off trying to stop them from being generated in the first place if it's within your power to make it happen.

Multiple instances of Windows Server AppFabric Configuration

I have both a dev and prod environment set up on two different virtual directories on the same virtual machine and following Configuring Multiple WMS Instances to try and get them both set up properly. They appear to be working fine as I can see workflow instances being persisted in for the appropriate environments based on the client that is connecting to them. The problem comes in trying to view the persisted instances within IIS Manager. I get the following errors:
IIS Error Displayed when trying to look at persisted instances
Error message presented when clicking on "Error(s) encountered" link
(* I appologize, I don't know how to upload images directly into this post *)
The relevant configuration files I have are as follows:
Default Web.Config
<microsoft.applicationServer>
<monitoring lockElements="bulkCopyProviders, collectors">
<bulkCopyProviders>
<bulkCopyProvider providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Monitoring.EventCollector.SqlServerBulkCopy, Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Monitoring, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</bulkCopyProviders>
<collectors>
<collector name="" session="0">
<settings retryCount="5" eventBufferSize="10000" retryWait="00:00:15" samplingInterval="00:00:05" aggregationEnabled="true" />
</collector>
</collectors>
<default enabled="true" connectionStringName="ProductionApplicationServerMonitoringConnectionString" monitoringLevel="HealthMonitoring" />
</monitoring>
<persistence>
<instanceStoreProviders lockItem="true">
<add name="SqlPersistenceStoreProvider" storeProvider="Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreProvider.Sql.SqlWorkflowInstanceStoreProvider, Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreProvider, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" storeControlProvider="Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreManagement.Sql.Control.SqlInstanceControlProvider, Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreManagement, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" storeQueryProvider="Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreManagement.Sql.Query.SqlInstanceQueryProvider, Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreManagement, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</instanceStoreProviders>
<workflowManagement>
<workflowManagementServiceInstances lockItem="true">
<workflowManagementServiceInstance name="">
<instanceStores>
<instanceStore name="productionSqlPersistenceStore" location="Workflows.Prod" />
</instanceStores>
</workflowManagementServiceInstance>
<workflowManagementServiceInstance name="Dev">
<instanceStores>
<instanceStore name="devSqlPersistenceStore" location="Workflows.Dev" />
</instanceStores>
</workflowManagementServiceInstance>
</workflowManagementServiceInstances>
</workflowManagement>
<instanceStores>
<add name="devSqlPersistenceStore" provider="SqlPersistenceStoreProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString" />
<add name="productionSqlPersistenceStore" provider="SqlPersistenceStoreProvider" connectionStringName="ProductionApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString" />
</instanceStores>
</persistence>
<hosting>
<serviceManagement endpointConfiguration="ServiceManagementNetPipeEndpoint" enabled="true" authorizedWindowsGroup="AS_Administrators" />
</hosting>
</microsoft.applicationServer>
<connectionStrings>
<add connectionString="BigSecret" name="ApplicationServerMonitoringConnectionString" />
<add connectionString="BigSecret" name="ApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString" />
<add connectionString="BigSecret" name="ProductionApplicationServerMonitoringConnectionString" />
<add connectionString="BigSecret" name="ProductionApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString" />
</connectionStrings>
Production Web.Config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<protocolMapping>
<remove scheme="net.pipe" />
</protocolMapping>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="false" />
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
<sqlWorkflowInstanceStore instanceCompletionAction="DeleteAll" instanceEncodingOption="None" instanceLockedExceptionAction="NoRetry" connectionStringName="ProductionApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString" hostLockRenewalPeriod="00:00:30" runnableInstancesDetectionPeriod="00:00:05" />
<workflowInstanceManagement authorizedWindowsGroup="AS_Administrators" />
<workflowUnhandledException action="AbandonAndSuspend" />
<workflowIdle timeToPersist="00:00:00" timeToUnload="00:01:00" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
</system.webServer>
<microsoft.applicationServer>
<monitoring lockElements="bulkCopyProviders, collectors">
<default enabled="true" connectionStringName="workflowStoreConnectionString" monitoringLevel="HealthMonitoring" />
</monitoring>
<persistence>
<instanceStores>
<remove name="defaultSqlPersistenceStore" />
<add name="defaultSqlPersistenceStore" provider="SqlPersistenceStoreProvider" connectionStringName="workflowStoreConnectionString" />
</instanceStores>
</persistence>
<hosting>
<serviceManagement endpointConfiguration="ServiceManagementNetPipeEndpoint" enabled="false" />
</hosting>
</microsoft.applicationServer>
<connectionStrings>
<add connectionString="BigSecret" name="workflowStoreConnectionString" />
</connectionStrings>
</configuration>
Dev Web.Config - Same as Production but with different connection string
Any help in resolving the error messages and being able to view the persisted instances is appreciated. TIA. JH
Turns out the issue was the result of the msi installer not properly running the sql scripts, failing silently and thus missing some of the tables. Re-running the scripts manually (Create_Persistence_Schema.sql, Create_Persistence_Logic.sql, Create_Monitoring_Schema.sql and Create_Monitoring_Logic.sql located in C:\windows\System32\AppFabric\Schema) corrected the issue.

multiple elements in web.config - asp.net

Currently my web.config has this:
<appSettings>
<add key="UserName" />
<add key="DBServer" />
<add key="DBUserName" />
<add key="DBPwd" />
<add key="DB" />
</appSettings>
If i have to connect to multiple db's I would like my web.config to have the following
<appSettings>
<add key="UserName" />
<add key="DBServer" />
<add key="DBUserName" />
<add key="DBPwd" />
<add key="DB" />
</appSettings>
<!--This section needs to hold data for another db server -->
<appSettings>
<add key="UserName" />
<add key="DBServer" />
<add key="DBUserName" />
<add key="DBPwd" />
<add key="DB" />
</appSettings>
The key names should be the same. Or is having multiple connection string sections the way to go?
You should use the <connectionStrings> section for this, it's exactly what it was designed to do :)
You can find more resources on MSDN for how to access your connection strings in this section.

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