deployment Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

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deployment Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Defines configuration settings that are used to support the deployment of a Web application.

configuration Element (General Settings Schema)
system.web Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
deployment Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

<deployment retail="true|false" />

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
retail	Optional Boolean attribute. Sets a value specifying whether a Web application is deployed in retail mode. The default value is false. This value can only be set at the machine level, not at the application level.

Attribute

Description

retail

Optional Boolean attribute.

Sets a value specifying whether a Web application is deployed in retail mode.

The default value is false.

This value can only be set at the machine level, not at the application level.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
configuration	The required root element in every configuration file used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration settings in a configuration file. Contains elements that configure ASP.NET Web applications and control how the applications behave.

Remarks

When retail is set to true, ASP.NET disables certain configuration settings such as trace output, custom errors, and debug capabilities.

Default Configuration

The following default <deployment> element is not explicitly configured in the machine configuration file, but is the default configuration returned by an application in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<deployment retail="false" />

Example

The following example shows how to declaratively specify values for several properties of the DeploymentSection class.

<system.web>
  <deployment retail="false" />
</system.web>

Element Information

Configuration Section Handler	System.Web.Configuration..::.DeploymentSection
Configuration Member	SystemWebSectionGroup..::.Deployment
Configurable Locations	Machine.config
Requirements	IIS 6.0 .NET Framework 2.0 Visual Studio 2005

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This does not turn off Custom Errors.

Max Schmeling | Edit | Show History

I just verified that this documentation is incorrect when it says "When retail is set to true, ASP.NET disables certain configuration settings such as trace output, custom errors, and debug capabilities. "

Setting retail to true *forces* it to show the custom error pages no matter what the custom errors mode is set to in the web.config. Exactly opposite of what the documentation says.

I can only assume that what it means is that it disables your settings and uses its own, but it's not very clear. Everyone that reads it, reads it as "it disables custom errors". And then they dismiss the idea of using it because who wants to disable custom errors?

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