How could I setup users in Membership Services from a Desktop application

Question

This is odd, but we have written an asp.Net web application (all's well there) but now we are importing a large amount of data, and in this case, users with existing usernames and passwords. The import is being done with a desktop application.

I need to take each user from the old system, and create a corresponding user in the new system, and to do that I need to add each of them to asp.net membership services.

I'm at a complete loss as to how I can do this from the desktop. I mean, I've got references to System.Web.Security, but what would I put in my App.config?

I'm sorry, I don't think I fully understand Membership Services enough to phrase this question all that well. But can someone point me in the right direction please?

Answer 1

You should check following SO threads for more information :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/444230/can-you-use-the-asp-net-membership-provider-in-a-windows-application

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1002645/is-using-the-asp-net-membership-providers-in-winforms-application-a-bad-idea