asp.net-membership

Creating ASP.NET Membership Tables Using Tarantino Database Management

I'm introducing Tarantino Database Management into a project, which has a brand new database schema. The only change (located in 0001_InitialSchema.sql) is the creation of the tables used in ASP.NET Membership. I generated the tables using aspnet_regsql.exe and then scripted them as CREATE TO scripts, then combined them into my single Ta...

ASP.NET Membership Provider ResetPassword isn't working.

I have encountered a very strange issue. Whenever I use the .NET membership provider to reset a password, it generates strange characters, which don't represent the password at all. An example of the password it generates is: 쥳⮚聙蟐֡ᑡ壈I#BAhy(ox32+y* It does this on every password. Has anyone seen this before or know a fix? Thank...

How to determine if a profile data member has ever been set?

I've asked this before but I'm resurrecting it because I didn't get a satisfactory response. I have a profile variable, and when I load it then it is assigned default values. I need to check to see if it has ever been assigned. Typically I'd use an is null comparison but that won't work. It was suggested I use the FindProfilesByUserNam...

ASP.NET MVC Custom Membership Guide

Hello There I am trying to make the move from PHP to ASP.NET. I have about 10 years experience with PHP, and 4 with C#. But I having problems with the authentication and membership system in ASP.NET. So i have spend quit a lot of time finding a guide on how to create a membership provider for a custom database setup from scratch, but i ...

'Username cannot be found' after modifying provider element

I am having trouble hitting the ASPNETDB.MDF database. It actually works fine until I add some code to the web config. This is the code I added that prevents me from connecting... <membership defaultProvider="CustomizedProvider"> <providers> <add name="CustomizedProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvide...

Using OpenID (via DotNetOpenAuth) along with user roles and other Membership Provider features in ASP.NET MVC

I'm building an ASP.NET MVC site where I want to use DotNetOpenAuth to implement OpenID login (I'm completely dropping username/password-based login). So far, I've been writing my code for the default username/password system with the ASP.NET Membership Provider, utilizing the roles system, the profile system, and the basic registration...

User Memberships/Roles (ASP.NET) - Using XML instead of SQL.

Hey All, I was just wondering if it's at all possible to use XML as the database instead of SQL? And if there is any info about this somewhere? Thanks ...

ASP.NET membership session cookie

I hesitate to make a decision about the authentication and authorization in a new web application. The Membership, Roles and Profile built in Asp.net 2.0 seems impressive, but there are too many things behind them, which is uneasy to find out. I've decide use my own DB structure so I have to rewrite my own provider, but there is still ...

Setting up Membership/Login using Visual Web Developer & ASP.NET

Hey All, I'm following this tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/879kf95c.aspx And there seems to be a lot of information missing. It doesn't tell me how to upload the database to my server etc. I remember following this tutorial last year, and ran into numerous propblems, and a google search revealed THOUSANDS of people ...

mixed mode authentication against AD and fallback to the database if it fail with Membership providers

Hi! my user will use form authentication against Active Directory or database. Theres no Windows Integrated Authentication there!! What i want is when the user submit the authentication form, it will try to validate the user against Active Directory and if it fail, try with the database. How can i do that? What i had in mind was to bu...

I need a better recommendation for handling custom User Properties with OpenID Membership

I'm using DotNetOpenAuth as my membership system, and the way I have it working now seems to be working quite well. What I'd like to do however is build into my website the ability to check user credentials against the AuthCookie rather than a session. In the membership provider, I can check for the username like this string UserN...

Timeout on custom membership provider in asp.net 4.0

Hi, I have implemented custom membership provider in my project. i kept one flag on database to get the users online. i want to reset this flag on the log out, i can do this if the user log out properly . I have to reset the flag on database even if the the browser closed directly or on any machine failure or normal time out, any trick...

How to store custom data in ASP.NET Membership Cookie

Can anyone give me an example (or point me in the right direction) on how to store custom data in an ASP.NET Membership cookie? I need to add some custom properties like UserID and URLSlug to the cookie and be able to retrieve the information in the same way one would retrieve the Username. Edit: I used Code Poet's example and came up...

Validating ASP.Net Custom MembershipUser over WCF Causing Unsolicited Service Calls?

Okay,...first the facts. I'm working on an ASP.Net project which validates it's users across a WCF service. I have a CutomMembershipUser class in a shared assembly which inherits from MembershipUser since I'm using a custom membership provider. All this cannot change because it's out of my remit. Here's roughly what's happening. I've...

aspnet mvc extending membership details using aspnet_users table.

Hi, I read all posts available referred to the possibility to extend membership and include users details information but at the moment the procedure is not so clear for me. I was wondering if anyone can shed some light providing me a link to: - a book with an implementation of a users table with foreign key to aspnet_users. - a tutoria...

ASP membership services is ALWAYS creating two accounts

I am using the ASP membership services to create and manage users. I notice that on user account registration everything works fine... Until I call Roles.AddUserToRole, and suddenly I get a second user account created in the aspnet_users table. Can someone explain this? I am quite certain that I should only ever have one user account in ...

Encrypt passwords in ASP.NET membership provider DB

I have a legacy application that uses the ASP.NET membership provider w/ SQL backend. The passwords in the database are set to clear. I would like to encrypt these passwords while preserving the individual passwords. How can I programatically go about accomplishing this? I know that in order for ASP.NET to recognize the change, I'll ...

ASP.Net membership provider

Hi, Is there a way to disable ASP.Net membership provider from using a web.config? Currently it stores a connection string and a sqlMembershipProvider in a web.config which is not where i'd like it to be. Thank you ...

Share information beetween ASP.NET applications on the same IIS

I have a solution with more than one ASP.NET web-application. Every application has its own virtual directory on the same IIS. One application is calling aspx pages in the other applications. How can I share some information (e.g. user/password) between these applications. Is the only way using querystrings (in this case, I must encrypt...

reject user to specific view ?

i have mvc2 project and i make custom role Provider I'm using attributes [Authorize(Roles = "Admin")] to prevent an authorized user from doing some actions that always reject user to log in view i want to change that and redirect user to view that I'm tilling him that he isn't authorized for this action [Authorize(Roles = "Admin")] ...