"How can I store the settings of my web .NET application?" - this is the one of the most often problems, which .NET developers face.

.NET platform provides several solutions for this problem. In this article we will consider each of the most popular solutions, advantages and disadvantages for each of them and try to explain how to choose one, which will be the best for your certain ASP.NET application.

There are the following options can be considered as the most convenient and covering almost all cases:

Storing settings in Global.asax file

Storing settings in Web.config file

Storing settings in database