Where are the account data of a new asp.net mvc web application put ?

Question

If you create a new ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application and run it, you can register new users and logon. But I can not find where does those account data are put. Database? Local files? Or session???

Answer 1

In your App_Data folder, if you click "Show all files", you'll see a database called ASPNETDB.MDF. This is where the user login data is stored. (Double click it to open it in server explorer and you'll see a table called "aspnet_Users")

The file is referenced by the web.config file in you project root - there's a connection string called "ApplicationServices" that points to the database file directly.