Inheriting Apps with Asp.net MVC
While cleaning up some code in the webconfigs of an Asp.net MVC application I came across a line of code to which I had no knowledge of and even more so was showing up as an error. I asked myself was it's purpose and most of all why was the Intellisense saying "The 'inheritInChildApplications' attribute is not allowed."? Resources How do I allow all users access to one route within a website with integrated auth? - Stack Overflow Changing ASP.NET web.config inheritance when mixing versions of child applications - Scott Hanselman Conclusion All the information can be seen and found in the following links but after looking at the comments you will find the reason behind the shown error. " Be aware that the inheritInChildApplications attribute is not part of the web.config schema (even in VS 2012) so you will get blue squiggles under it with a message of "The 'inheritInChildApplications' attribute is not allowed." It will, however,