I am using Visual Studio 2010 with MVC 3 and MS SQL SERVER 2008 R2. I am working on a website that resides on a server that also has VS 2010 installed on it. I used the stock membership provider methods to create my registered users and roles for the website. I can adjust roles and memberships using the asp.net configuration tool but when I publish to the server the users and roles I created did not get published with the rest of the website. I have researched this problem and have found that most people recommend using a third party tool to do membership updates but I just wanted to check and see if the tech has been updated at all to actually allow updates to the registered users roles without using a third party tool on a deployed/published website?
I have read most of the related posts with this question I am just wondering if anyone knows of any recent changes to the ASP.net configuration tool that would allow me to make the desired changes to the site.
Thanks for your input!
The ASP.Net Configuration tool is not really intended for use in production, as it means that the ability to manage Users and Roles is limited to users who have Visual Studio installed.
I’m not too sure that people would really recommend ‘third party’ tools as such, but I think they would actually mean that you build your own set of add/edit users screens within your MVC site.
If your requirements are such that the only people to ever add/edit users will have Visual Studio installed, you can get away with using the ASP.Net Configuration tool for production use – but you will need to ensure that your solution on your development machine uses the same Membership database as the one on the Production machine.