Question

In visual studio there is a nice possibility to manage users and memberships for an ASP.NET site. I moved the membership data from SQLEXPRESS to a normal SQL server. The website works fine, however how do i now manage my users/profiles/etc… like I was used to in visual studio? Is it possible to tell vs2010 to ‘look’ into the new sql server database in stead of the apsnetdb.mdf file?

Thanks,

Erik

Answer 1

This is how I do it:

In your web.config file, under the connectionStrings section, name your connection string, LocalSqlServer, i.e.

<connectionStrings>
    <remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
    <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Server=123.123.123.123;Database=dbName;User ID=dbuser;Password=dbPassword;Trusted_Connection=False;" />
</connectionStrings>

Your role and membership providers, if have the connectionStringName set, change them to LocalSqlServer otherwise, the default providers “should” automatically refer to LocalSqlServer anyway.

In VS2010, I then simply go to Project > ASP.NET Configuration which will start the tool to manage users, roles etc.

HTH