Hello All,

I am working through the SAMS "ASP.NET 2.0 - Unleased" book to teach
myself ASP.NET. It is a great book, but Chapter 21 "Using ASP.NET
Membership" is causing me problems - or maybe I am just missing
something.

It is telling me that in order to modify user password requirements I
need to add the following to the web.config file.

<membership defaultProvider="MyProvider">
<providers>
<add
name="MyProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" />
</providers>
</membership>

The trouble with this is that "MyProvider" (whatever that is) is now
the default provider so it seems to override the provider that I
already have (the provider that was created for me the first time I
used the asp:CreateUserWizard control for the first time).

How do I modify the web.config file to change the value of
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters without "adding" a provider. What
is the name of the provider that I already have? I am confused.

Help is always appreciated.

Paul

re:
!> What is the name of the provider that I already have?

The default membership provider is a SqlMembershipProvider
instance named "AspNetSqlMembershipProvider".

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/014bec1k(VS.80).aspx

It contains methods and properties specific to using
SQL Express 2005 as a data store for membership information.

It inherits from the MembershipProvider class.
The MembershipProvider class itself inherits from the ProviderBase class.

re:
> How do I modify the web.config file to change the value of
> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters without "adding" a provider.

Add the required lines, after clearing the existing default provider.

<membership defaultProvider="MyProvider">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" />
</providers>
</membership>

Make sure you don't leave out any important settings...




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"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello All,
>
> I am working through the SAMS "ASP.NET 2.0 - Unleased" book to teach
> myself ASP.NET. It is a great book, but Chapter 21 "Using ASP.NET
> Membership" is causing me problems - or maybe I am just missing
> something.
>
> It is telling me that in order to modify user password requirements I
> need to add the following to the web.config file.
>
> <membership defaultProvider="MyProvider">
> <providers>
> <add
> name="MyProvider"
> type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
> connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" />
> </providers>
> </membership>
>
> The trouble with this is that "MyProvider" (whatever that is) is now
> the default provider so it seems to override the provider that I
> already have (the provider that was created for me the first time I
> used the asp:CreateUserWizard control for the first time).
>
> How do I modify the web.config file to change the value of
> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters without "adding" a provider. What
> is the name of the provider that I already have? I am confused.
>
> Help is always appreciated.
>
> Paul
>

Aargh! Typo warning !

That should have been :

<membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" />
</providers>
</membership>

Sorry...

The rest stands as posted.




Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
asp.net faq : http://asp.net.do/faq/
foros de asp.net, en español : http://asp.net.do/foros/
======================================
"Juan T. Llibre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> re:
> !> What is the name of the provider that I already have?
>
> The default membership provider is a SqlMembershipProvider
> instance named "AspNetSqlMembershipProvider".
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/014bec1k(VS.80).aspx
>
> It contains methods and properties specific to using
> SQL Express 2005 as a data store for membership information.
>
> It inherits from the MembershipProvider class.
> The MembershipProvider class itself inherits from the ProviderBase class.
>
> re:
>> How do I modify the web.config file to change the value of
>> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters without "adding" a provider.
>
> Add the required lines, after clearing the existing default provider.
>
> <membership defaultProvider="MyProvider">
> <providers>
> <clear />
> <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
> type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
> connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" />
> </providers>
> </membership>
>
> Make sure you don't leave out any important settings...
>
>
>
>
> Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
> asp.net faq : http://asp.net.do/faq/
> foros de asp.net, en español : http://asp.net.do/foros/
> ======================================
> "Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am working through the SAMS "ASP.NET 2.0 - Unleased" book to teach
>> myself ASP.NET. It is a great book, but Chapter 21 "Using ASP.NET
>> Membership" is causing me problems - or maybe I am just missing
>> something.
>>
>> It is telling me that in order to modify user password requirements I
>> need to add the following to the web.config file.
>>
>> <membership defaultProvider="MyProvider">
>> <providers>
>> <add
>> name="MyProvider"
>> type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
>> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
>> connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" />
>> </providers>
>> </membership>
>>
>> The trouble with this is that "MyProvider" (whatever that is) is now
>> the default provider so it seems to override the provider that I
>> already have (the provider that was created for me the first time I
>> used the asp:CreateUserWizard control for the first time).
>>
>> How do I modify the web.config file to change the value of
>> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters without "adding" a provider. What
>> is the name of the provider that I already have? I am confused.
>>
>> Help is always appreciated.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
>

Thanks Juan,

That brings me a little bit closer to understanding, but I am still
confused. I added the code that you gave me to the web.config file.

I am still getting a result that I don't understand. As an experiment
I have the following Page_Load event in one of my pages.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MembershipUserCollection mine = Membership.GetAllUsers();
foreach (MembershipUser myUser in mine)
{
Response.Write(myUser.UserName + "<br />");
}
}

After I added the code that you suggested into the web.config file
this event produced no output. So as an experiment I created another
user and loaded the page again. This time I got output - the user that
I had just added. Then I had a look at the contents of the
aspnet_Users table in the ASPNETDB.MDF database and found that the
user I had just added was there with all the other users that I had in
there before. If all the users are stored in the same place, why does
the Membership.GetAllUser() method return a collection with only the
user that I added after I edited the web.config file. I had a look at
the data in some of the other tables in ASPNETDB.MDF database to see
if there was a field that gave the GetAllUsers() method the info it
needed to differentiate between users that I had added before editing
web.config and those I added after but I could not find anything. I
must be missing knowledge of some fundamental Membership concept that
is causing my confusion.

Paul