configProtectionProvider not supported   

When I encrypt/decrypt the connectionStrings section of my web.config file, 
everything works well, but the actual connectionStrings element gets a new 
attribute of configProtectionProvider, which the VS 2008 IDE flags as a 
schema error and says that this attribute is not supported.  Sure enough, 
the intelliSense for that piece of markup doesn't show this attribute 
either.

Again, everything works, but what gives with that attribute?

-Scott

date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:23:56 -0400   author:   Scott M. am

Re: configProtectionProvider not supported   

Hey Scott,

It's just because Visual Studio uses XSD files to validate the XML for the 
configuration. Since any configuration section theoretically could be 
encrypted with any number of providers it was probably easier to just leave 
it out. What you're seeing is perfectly normal, I wouldn't worry about it 
any.

You can always fix it by modifying the appropriate XSD file the IDE uses to 
validate the sections, but it isn't worth the effort imo.


"Scott M." <s-mar@nospam.nospam> wrote in message 
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> When I encrypt/decrypt the connectionStrings section of my web.config 
> file, everything works well, but the actual connectionStrings element gets 
> a new attribute of configProtectionProvider, which the VS 2008 IDE flags 
> as a schema error and says that this attribute is not supported.  Sure 
> enough, the intelliSense for that piece of markup doesn't show this 
> attribute either.
>
> Again, everything works, but what gives with that attribute?
>
> -Scott
>

date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:32:34 -0400   author:   Jeff Winn