When to use Constants vs. Config Files to maintain Configuration

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Published on 2011-11-23T06:16:52Z Indexed on 2011/11/23 10:09 UTC
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I often fight with myself on whether to put certain keys in my web.config or in a Constants.cs class or something like this.

For example if I wanted to store application specific keys for whatever the case may be..I could store it and grab it from my web config via custom keys or consume it by referencing a constant in my constants class.

When would you want to use Constants over config keys?

This question really applies to any language I think.

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