The InheritInChildApplications property represents the inheritInChildApplicationsattribute of a location element in a configuration file.

Set InheritInChildApplications to false to prevent settings that are specific to a certain location (such as the root directory of a Web site) from being inherited by applications that exist in subdirectories.

The following example shows how to use this attribute in a configuration file to specify that the settings defined in the location element for the root of a Web site should not be inherited by child applications:

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">

The InheritInChildApplications property applies only to location-specific configuration settings.

The following example shows how to get the InheritInChildApplications value of a ConfigurationSection object.

Public Shared Sub GetInheritInChildApps() 

    Dim sInfo As SectionInformation = _
    GetSectionInformation()

    Dim inheritInChildApps As Boolean = _
    sInfo.InheritInChildApplications
    Console.WriteLine("Inherit in child apps: {0}", _
    inheritInChildApps.ToString())

End Sub 'GetInheritInChildApps    

static public void GetInheritInChildApps()
{
    SectionInformation sInfo =
        GetSectionInformation();

    bool inheritInChildApps =
        sInfo.InheritInChildApplications;
    Console.WriteLine("Inherit in child apps: {0}",
        inheritInChildApps.ToString());

}

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