Question

I’m writing a simple utility console app to add new users, etc, to an SQL Server Membership Store.

The issue I’m running into is that I can’t seem to add a reference to System.Web, so I can’t access the Membership stuff. How does one go about doing this?

NOTE: I’ve found a few questions on stackoverflow that seem similar, but the answers revolved around MVC, and after attempting the suggested answers, the problem still remains.

Edit:
Oded helped lead me to the answer. By default it was filtering by the “client profile”, which doesn’t have System.Web available. I had to retarget to .Net 4 instead of .Net 4 client profile as described in the following MSDN article.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398202.aspx

Answer 1

Make sure you are targeting the full framework in your project (right click on the project node and select Properties) – In the Application tab there is a drop down for Target Framework.

Make sure this does not use a client profile.