Question

I’m configuring the SqlMembershipProvider for asp.net and I in my web.config file I don’t have the ability to add connectionStringName attribute. I’m supposed to having this and if I don’t put it in there I get an exception from the website administration tool saying that the connectionStringName value is empty or not set. Is there a reason as to why I don’t have the connectionStringName in the web.config?

It’s supposed to look like this:

<membership defaultProvider="MyMembershipProvider">
  <providers>
    <add type="System.Web.Security.SqlmembershipProvider" name="MyMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="MusicStoreEntities"/>
  </providers>
</membership>

but I don’t have the connectionStringName….Any ideas?

btw – When I say that I don’t have it, it’s not displaying in intellisense.

Answer 1

please refer this msdn article on setting up membership provider http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6e9y4s5t.aspx
As far as intellisense is concerned there may be some other error in the web.config that is causing the intellisense not to work.