Adding the Policy Injection Application Block to the Configuration

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You can add the Policy Injection Application Block to the configuration of an application using either the stand-alone Configuration Console or the Visual Studio Configuration Editor. The next procedure explains how to add the Policy Injection Application Block to the configuration file using the stand-alone Configuration Console installed with Enterprise Library.

To add the Policy Injection Application Block to configuration using the stand-alone Configuration Console

  1. Start the Library Configuration Console. To do this, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft patterns & practices, point to Enterprise Library 4.1 — October 2008, and then click Enterprise Library Configuration.

  2. Click New Application or Open Existing Application.

  3. Right-click Application Configuration, point to New, and then click Policy Injection Application Block.

  4. If you are editing the configuration for a Web Forms application that you intend to run in partial trust mode, click in the RequirePermission field (in the right-side list of properties for the selected node), and then click False in the drop-down list of valid property values.

    Note

    Transparent Proxy interception requires permissions that are not granted in medium-trust.

  5. If you want to use the encryption option for a section of the configuration file, click in the ProtectionProvider field, and then click a protection provider in the drop-down list.

The next procedure explains how to add the Policy Injection Application Block to the configuration file using the Configuration Editor that Enterprise Library installs into Visual Studio.

To add the Policy Injection Application Block to configuration using the Visual Studio Configuration Editor

  1. Open Visual Studio and create a new project or open an existing application to which you want to add the Policy Injection Application Block.
  2. If the project does not already contain a configuration file (for example, Web.config in a Web Forms project or App.config in a Windows Forms project), right-click the project name in Solution Explorer, click Add, and then click New Item (in a Web Forms project, right-click, and then click Add New Item). Depending on the project type, select either Application Configuration File or Web Configuration File in the Add New Item dialog box, and then click OK.
  3. If the configuration file is open in the main Visual Studio editor window, close it.
  4. Right-click the configuration file (Web.config or App.config) in Solution Explorer, and then click Edit Enterprise Library Configuration to open the configuration file in the Visual Studio Configuration Editor.
  5. Right-click the node that contains the name of the configuration file (the node below the Enterprise Library Configuration root node) in the main editor window, point to New, and then click Policy Injection Application Block.
  6. The properties for the node selected in the main window appear in the Visual Studio Properties window. If you cannot see the Properties window, select Properties on the View menu or press F4.
  7. If you are editing the configuration for a Web Forms application that you intend to run in partial trust mode, click in the RequirePermission property in the Properties window, and then click False in the drop-down list of valid property values.
  8. If you want to encrypt the configuration file, click in the ProtectionProvider property in the Properties window, and then click a protection provider in the drop-down list.