update more than only the email with asp.net membership

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ibiza

Hi all,

I am currently developing in asp.net 2.0 and I was at first impressed
with the numerous login and user controls they provided to ease the
task of managing users.

But I am starting to think it's an hassle for certain tasks...here's my
problem :

I have created some users and successfully log them with the supplied
controls. However, I have hard times with the 'user managment' screen
(for the admin). On one page, I list all the users available in a
Gridview. Up to there, everything works, great. However, I need to
update the users information and I've tried the method suggested here
(http://asp.net/QuickStart/util/srcview.aspx?path=~/aspnet/samples/security/Update.src),
adapted to a gridview (with the RowUpdating event).

But with the given method, I can only update the email!! what the
&*$%......I can't change the Username nor the IsLockedOut values,
because they are 'ReadOnly' properties. What does that mean? That I
can't change them at all? How is the admin going to disable any users?

I'd appreciate if someone can point me some resource that explain how
to update user properties like username or locked status. This
membership system is getting me mad.

Thanks! :)

ibiza
 
Hello ibiza,

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is with your code but I noticed in the
source from the Quickstart, that many of the bound items are marked as
ReadOnly. If you change that property, then you should be able to change
those fields (you probably already know this). My understanding is that if
you go with the default membership data schema, everything is keyed off the
username (an aspect that I disagree with. I feel that everything should be
keyed off the email. But that's another story). I would assume that means you
probably don't want to be mucking around with the username (they should
probably be unique) and that's why they made the quickstart tutorial the way
they did.
 
Hi brians, thank you very much for your reply.

They made the bound items read only so the user cannot change them.
However, being able to change them does not mean being able to update
them. The real update is done here :

Sub DetailsView1_ItemUpdating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e as
DetailsViewUpdateEventArgs)
'Need to handle the update manually because MembershipUser does
not have a
'parameterless constructor
Dim memUser as MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser()

memUser.Email = CStr(e.NewValues(0))
memUser.Comment = CStr(e.NewValues(1))

Try
Membership.UpdateUser(memUser)

e.Cancel = true
DetailsView1.ChangeMode(DetailsViewMode.ReadOnly)
Catch ex as Exception
Response.Write("<div>The following error occurred:<font
color='red'> " + ex.Message + "</font></div>")

e.Cancel = true
End Try
End Sub

The fact is, if you add for example :

"memUser.IsLockedOut = True", it would throw an exception, as the
property IsLockedOut from MembershipUser is read-only. So they only
made the bound controls readonly because even if the user had the
chance to change the data in textboxes, it could not be updated
programatically because the MembershipUser object would not allow it.

I can live, if I have to, with not being able to change the username,
but gosh, I really need to lock/unlock users.
 
Hi ibiza,

Just from a quick glance at the stored procedure
aspnet_Membership_UpdateUser would lead me to believe that you don't want to
be unlocking the user with the UpdateUser() method. But there is an
aspnet_Membership_UnlockUser stored procedure which I would assume resolves
to the MembershipUser.UnlockUser() method. You can probably use it to unlock
the user.
 
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