Are there any open source projects that provide a front end to asp.net membership provider? Something like the one visual studio exposes through it configuration, but one that can be deployed on production.
Examples of some of the functionality I would like to see in the front end is
Etc
Peter Kellner has an older article that lays out how to do this, complete with source code.
Yeah, I have been working on cleaning up and fixing the built-in admin tool. You can run it standalone.
http://spikes.codeplex.com/releases/view/40655
WebAdmin is simply the built in ASP.NetWebAdministrationFiles application cleaned up with codebehinds to make customization and refactoring possible.
This is a precursor to a more comprehensive asp.net web administration application that will fold in a lot of the configuration concerns that have come about in the past 5 years and 3 .net versions.
Usage: Point WebAdmin at a site by specifying applicationPhysicalPath and, if relevant, the applicationUrl (virtual path) e.g. default.aspx?applicationPhysicalPath=C:\Projects\WebAdmin\WebApplication1\&applicationUrl=/
It is best if the identity running this application has elevated permissions. Thus it makes sense to launch it with the webdev server or cassini. If you plan to place it in IIS be aware that impersonation is used and configure the vdir accordingly.
Known Issues:
Have yet to track down all the possible cases of the "Invalid postback" exception. It is caused by a security hole closed sometime after the built in web admin files were written and have not been updated.
When you find one, go to that page and place this in the page directive: EnableEventValidation="false" and post it on the http://spikes.codeplex.com Issues tabe.