I would concur.  Saving as much configuration to a database as possible, and 
deferring as much configuration as possible to application configuration, is 
the most stable approach.  We use this on all of our products.  The installer 
modifies the web.config only enough to "bootstrap" the configuration 
process--it puts a connection string into the web.config.  The rest of 
configuration is handled by the application itself.

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Shawnee Mission, KS  66227
Office:  913-341-3434 x791011
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From: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@hyland.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:00 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] .NET config best practices

My suggestion is that you store this information in some soft of database and 
have the application (or a configuration application ) manage the settings.
I think you'll find it difficult to be able to try and save / merge all this 
data as time goes on.

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