josephAARON
New Member
I have a problem (or at least I think I do). I am attempting to set the machine key of a site in it's web.config in order to prepare for future sharing of the forms authentication data between sites. I first set the following in the web.config:\[code\] <machineKey validationKey="<SOME_VALUE>" decryptionKey="<SOME_VALUE>" validation="SHA1" decryption="AES"/>\[/code\]As a test, I wrote the following to test new machineKey element in the web.config:\[code\]var machineConfigMachineKey = (MachineKeySection)WebConfigurationManager.OpenMachineConfiguration().SectionGroups["system.web"].Sections["machineKey"];var webConfigMachineKey = (MachineKeySection)WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("").SectionGroups["system.web"].Sections["machineKey"];Response.Write("<pre>");Response.Write("<b>machine.config decrypt: </b>" + machineConfigMachineKey.DecryptionKey + "<br />");Response.Write("<b>web.config decrypt: </b>" + webConfigMachineKey.DecryptionKey + "<br />");Response.Write("<br />");Response.Write("<b>machine.config validate: </b>" + machineConfigMachineKey.ValidationKey + "<br />");Response.Write("<b>web.config validate: </b>" + webConfigMachineKey.ValidationKey + "<br />");Response.Write("</pre>");Response.End();\[/code\]... which results in this display:\[code\]machine.config decrypt: AutoGenerate,IsolateAppsweb.config decrypt: AutoGenerate,IsolateAppsmachine.config validate: AutoGenerate,IsolateAppsweb.config validate: AutoGenerate,IsolateApps\[/code\]Obviously I am super confused by this, as I was expecting to see the custom values from the new machineKey element in the web.config instead of "AutoGenerate,IsolateApps".Am I missing something here that should be brutally obvious to me?Thanks 