Hi all, I am trying to put a AD MembershipProvider to work but I am getting a very strange error: "Parser Error Message: You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again." Has anyone seen this? Obviously there are no other computers with cla...
Are there Custom ASP.NET Membership Providers for sale with added security? For example, the ability to have multiple Questions/Answers that are randomly presented for Password reset, set number of login attempts, force password resets every 30 days, prevent duplicate passwords for new password for a certain period of time, etc ...
I'm building a site which will be using the ASP.NET Membership and the ProfileProvider to store the additional information (and expose it). Is there any control built into the .NET framework, or free, which connects into the ProfileProvider and the defined profile class to allow for easy editing. ...
Hello, I'm playing around a bit with Flex, WebORB and C#, and what I wanted to do was Get User + Pass from Flex forms, go through WebORB to the C#-.dll that connects and checks the membership validation, sends the result back via WebORB into Flex and logs the user in depending on the result. The trouble I'm hitting is that the C#-.dll ...
I am trying to configure an ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider but I keep getting the message "Unable to establish secure connection with the server". I have seen online at the MSDN website that I should configure the trust level to unrestricted on my site and I still get that. Here is my example: <connectionStrings> <add name="...
If I want to do an admin function like delete a user on the asp.net membership stuff that ships with the asp.net mvc sample. I tried looking through the tables and realized that there was multiple tables that had rows added. I assume there must be a simpler way. ...
I am currently building a custom Membership Provider for my Asp.net MVC website. I have an existing database with a Users table and I'm using Linq-to-Sql to automatically generates this class for me. What I would like to do is have this generated User class inherit from the MembershipUser class so I can more easily use it in my custom ...
Hit a roadblock while implementing a sub domain based language switcher (en.domain.com loads English, jp.domain.com loads Japanese). How do I get a single membership system to work across multiple sub domains (ASP.NET MVC C#)? Saw something about adding domain="domain.com" to <forms > entry in web.config. Did that, but does that work w...
I am using the following code from MVC Storefront to test OpenId in MVC. How do I integrate it with my ASP.Net Membership so I can use roles and save a user name for the user in my tables? I believe that SO is also using something similar. public ActionResult OpenIdLogin() { string returnUrl = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolu...
I have a parent site where i setup all the settings in the web.config The sub site is a seprate application, but i intetialy dont have a web.config file there, so that it should inherit all settings from its parent site But nevertheless i can sign in both sites, but signing into the parent site will automatically sign the user o...
I have implemented a custom membership provider using LINQ to SQL. When I added the Membership provider to my asp.net mvc website in the web config the logon page stopped working. My Web.config setup: <membership> <providers> <clear/> <add name="MyMembershipProvider" type="MyMembership.MyMembershipProvider" ...
I am not sure if I should do this any different with MVC, but I am curious what is the recommended approach for adding extra info to a ASP.NET User account when using the Membership provider? Also how to associate this use with other entities. Normally I don't bother with the profiles, and prefer to add extra information to a table that...
I'm using the SQLMembershipProvider and want to add a load more info about the users. It the best way to do this to create a new DB and make an entry for each new user as they are created? If so, is there any reason not to use the SQLMembershipProvider UserID value as the PK in the users table in my new DB? Or, are there any good reason...
Have anyone done this? I'm putting the membershiplogic in a C# .dll, and the connection info in an app.config. When I try to use the C# .dll with another Windows C# console debug project I put the App.config in the consoles application directory, and calling the C# .dll-methods and it suceeds, I get a connection and it validates my user...
Hi I have a requirement to persist the Persistent auth cokkies for a long period (1 month) I am also using quite a few session variables. Now I cannot set the session timeout to that long (it will kill the server). It is currently set to 30 mins. Suppose the user keeps their browser window open for a day, the auth cookie wont expire b...
i am using the asp.net membership that ships with asp.net-mvc sample app. how do i set certain users up as an Admin role versus a regular Member role? ...
I have a fairly unique situation with Asp.Net. An admin user must create any new user for the web site. Since somebody else is creating the new user, it doesn't make sense to have them create a security question and answer to recover the password for the new user. However, I want to use the security question and answer in order to allo...
I've been playing around with Troy Goode's PagedList http://pagedlist.codeplex.com/. I was wondering if anyone has gotten it to work with the built in asp.net Membership piece? I have over 8000 users so I need to be able to page thru the User list. using a line like this in my memberhsip controller doesn't work. It wont compile. Membe...
I want to implement something similar to what Digg has done. When the user logs in for the first time, I want it to force them to create an account on my site. More importantly I want to know how to log a user into my site when they login with facebook connect. If they login with facebook connect, they still haven't provided me the pa...
Hi I am wondering how do I extend the membership stuff in asp.net? When a user logs in I want to check the UserName and Password. Of course the standard asp.net membership does this(this it is ValidateUser()). I also want to check another field called "institution". If a user types something in this box I want to verify if the "instit...