In ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the Framework provided API's that enabled us to only read information from the configuration file. There is no way to write information into the configuration file. However, ASP.NET 2.0 includes a full configuration management API that enables us to navigate, read and write an application's configuration file. Configuration settings are exposed as a set of strongly typed object against which we can easily program. The management API can be used to read and write configuration settings of remote and local applications. The WebConfigurationManager provides members (AppSettings, ConnectionStrings, OpenWebConfiguration, OpenMachineConfiguration, etc.) and using the methods of those members we can extract information from a configuration file. The sample code snippets have been written in C#.