You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

This chapter excerpt on Linux Administration (download PDF) is taken from the book The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. Among the topics covered in this book ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

Data serialization languages, like Extensible Markup Language and YAML Ain't Markup Language, are typically found in infrastructure-as-code management software. Understand the differences and use ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

I need to design a config file, and I'm hoping to use an open source parser for it. It's pretty simple, except for nesting. My config file would be something like: Streetname = My Street Dr. An ini ...

TOML format files consist of key-value pairs, where keys are strings and values can be one of a number of types. In some ways it’s reminiscent of the Microsoft Windows .ini file format, but with ...