Question

• .Net4.0
• MVC 2
• NHibernate
• NUnit

I’m trying to test user creation. From my test, I’m calling the following:

MembershipCreateStatus status;
// _session is my current NHibernate session.
var mmp = new MyMembershipProvider(_session);
mmp.CreateUser(username, password, "[e-mail]", "", "", true, Guid.NewGuid(), out status);

In the CreateUser method, it gets this far:

var user = new MembershipUser(Name, username, providerUserKey, email, passwordQuestion, passwordAnswer, isApproved, false, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now);

… before throwing this exception:

The membership provider name specified is invalid.
Parameter name: providerName

I have my Name set to MyMembershipProvider, and in the Web.config I have this:

<add name="OnyxMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices"
  enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false"
  maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10"
  applicationName="/" />

And also, my connection string:

<add name="ApplicationServices"
     connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true"
     providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Now, I’m guessing the the problem is that my tests are creating a SQLite DB, and the web.Config is trying to hit my SqlServer DB, but I’m not sure how to proceed.

Answer 1

Shouldn’t the name be the same as that specified in the web.config?

i.e. OnyxMembershipProvider