<debug> Element 

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Specifies whether to load types in the configuration file when the application starts. This element cannot be specified when the configuration file is named web.config and the remote type host process is Internet Information Services (IIS).

<debug  
   loadTypes="true|false" 
/>

Attributes and Elements

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

Attributes

Attribute Description

loadTypes

Required attribute.

Specifies whether to load all types specified in this configuration file when the application starts, so that you can be alerted if there is an error in your configuration file. This helps to prevent simple typing errors from becoming a time-consuming debugging effort.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element Description

configuration

The root element in every configuration file used by the common language runtime and .NET Framework applications.

system.runtime.remoting

Contains information about remote objects and channels.

Example

The following configuration file example tells the .NET Framework remoting system to attempt to load the types specified in this file (in this case, the ServiceClass and TcpChannel types) when the client application starts.

<configuration>
   <system.runtime.remoting>
      <application>
         <client>
            <wellknown 
               type="ServiceClass, IService"
               url="tcp://computername:8080/TcpService"
            />
         </client>
         <channels>
            <channel ref="tcp"/>
         </channels>
      </application>
      <debug loadTypes="true" />
   </system.runtime.remoting>
</configuration>

See Also

Reference

Remoting Settings Schema