scripting Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Specifies configuration settings for ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web pages and for enabling or disabling application services.

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

<scripting> 
    <webServices>... </webServices>
    <scriptResourceHandler 
       enableCompression="true|false" 
       enableCaching="true|false" />
</scripting>

Attributes and Elements

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

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element

Description

webServices

Configures Web services and controls their behavior.

scriptResourceHandler

Configures the script resources handler that is used for AJAX-enabled Web applications.

Parent Elements

Element

Description

configuration

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

system.web.extensions

Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET extensions configuration section, and contains elements that configure ASP.NET services and control their behavior.

Remarks

The scripting element provides sections for enabling and disabling application services, and for configuring ASP.NET AJAX (scripting) behavior. For example, you can specify custom converters to use during JSON serialization and configure the script resources handler.

Element Information

Configuration Section Handler

System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingSectionGroup

Configuration Members

System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingScriptResourceHandlerSection

System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingWebServicesSectionGroup

Configurable Locations

Machine.config

Application-level Web.config

Validation File

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, or 7.0

The .NET Framework version 3.0

See Also

Tasks

How to: Configure ASP.NET Services in ASP.NET AJAX

Concepts

ASP.NET Configuration Overview

ASP.NET Configuration File Hierarchy and Inheritance

Reference

System.Web.Configuration

Other Resources

ASP.NET Configuration Settings

ASP.NET Configuration API