Is it possible to get ACS claims without editing web.config?

Question

Is it possible to set up the realm URL, claim types, etc for azure ACS without editing the web.config? Can you set up these required elements programmatically somehow?

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Answer 1

To remove that xml line from the web config, I made my own WSFederationAuthenticationModule overriding the old one, like so:

public class CustomWSFederationAuthenticationModule : WSFederationAuthenticationModule
{
    protected override void InitializePropertiesFromConfiguration(string serviceName)
    {
        this.Realm = "http://localhost:81/";
        this.Issuer = "https://acsnamespace.accesscontrol.windows.net/v2/wsfederation";
        this.RequireHttps = false;
        this.PassiveRedirectEnabled = true;
    }
}

And the important part of the web.config:

Also the federatedAuthentication section of the XML is removed entirely.