Installing and Configuring Applications - 70-536 Study Guide: Key Terms
Application Setting – A custom setting that the application reads, writes, or both.
Configuration Management – The practice of handling and managing how an application is set up and configured.
Connection String – A specific value used by an application to connect to a given database. All ODBC and OleDb compliant databases use a connection string. For security those should always be encrypted.
.NET Framework 2.0 Configuration Tool (Mscorcfg.msc) – A tool provided by the .NET framework that allows visual configuration and management of applications and assemblies.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2bc0cxhc(VS.80).aspx
Roll back – An action taken in cases where an installation does not complete successfully. To roll back means to undo any changes made up until the point of failure so that the machine is returned to the state is was in prior to the installation attempt.
Uninstall – Getting rid of any remnants of an application so that the machine looks identical to how it would have had the application never been installed.
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