Elaborating from the answer above The WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection Method help states that If you want to use a database table that contains user profile information (user names, email addresses, and so on), you specify a connection string and table name that the membership system uses to connect to that information. If you do not want to … Read more
When using forms authentication and the user is not authenticated or authorized the ASP.NET security pipeline will redirect to the login page and pass as a parameter in the query string the returnUrl equal to the page that redirected to the login page. The login action grabs the value of this parameter and puts it … Read more
Found an answer here by Mehdi Golchin which seems to take care of: [Authorize(Roles=”admin,editor,publisher”)] If I also add this to the home controller: [InitializeSimpleMembership] Because this attribute is on the Accounts controller, SimpleMembership database gets initialize only after the first use of the accounts controller like login/register. Even when the current user gets logged in … Read more
See the summaries below each quote for a quick answer, and the paragraphs for detail. Also see the References section at the end for the authoritative sources. Summaries 1.What is SimpleMembership/SimpleMembershipProvider (WebMatrix.WebData) and what is it/are they responsible for? SimpleMembership (a term that covers both the SimpleMembershipProvider and SimpleRoleProvider) is responsible for providing a clean … Read more
WebMatrix is compatible with MVC 5. What I did was to take an empty MVC 5 project and incorporate WebMatrix SimpleMembershipProvider into it using SimpleSecurity, an open source project that decouples SimpleMembership from your MVC application. So far I am able to create the database, seed it, and log in and out. I plan on … Read more