Enabling Roles Using a Custom Membership Provider

[EagleRed]

I have setup a custom membership provider for an ASP.NET 2.0 application as
follows:

<connectionStrings>
<add name="MyDB" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;
user id=myAppLogon;
password=pppwwwddd;Initial Catalog=MyAppDB"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms" />
<membership defaultProvider="myAppProvider">
<providers>
<add name="myAppProvider" connectionStringName="MyDB"
...
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"/>
</providers>
</membership>
</system.web>

I created MyAppDB using the aspnet_regsql utility and added some tables that
have some relations with the tables it created. All has worked fine to this
point.

I now want to add roles. I went into the WAT and enabled roles. It added a
roleManager line to the web.config file as follows.

<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms" />
<roleManager enabled="true" />
<membership defaultProvider="myAppProvider">
<providers>
<add name="myAppProvider" connectionStringName="MyDB"
...
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"/>
</providers>
</membership>
</system.web>

I edited it to read,

<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="myAppProvider" />

I added some roles which did not appear in MyAppDB and I cannot edit or
manager users. The error says it cannot find the provider. What happen? How
can it be fixed?

As always, any help would be appreciated.

 

[Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]]

Hi,

role and membership are 2 different providers - you also have to register
the role provider - the name "myAppProvider" is unknown to ASP.NET for roles.

look at machine.config in the framework directory for the roleManager element
and copy it to your local web.config (give it an appropriate name, change
the connection string name etc...)

 

[EagleRed]

Thanks, that cleared it up.

Hi,

role and membership are 2 different providers - you also have to register
the role provider - the name "myAppProvider" is unknown to ASP.NET for roles.

look at machine.config in the framework directory for the roleManager element
and copy it to your local web.config (give it an appropriate name, change
the connection string name etc...)

 

[John Toop]

Hi Dominick, Could I get some details on this? Does this mean that there
needs to be a "provider" entry that corresponds to the "defaultprovider"
defined within the "rolemanager" element? This seems to be where I'm getting
hung up. I'm looking at the what EagleRed was trying to do but they seem to
reference Membership provider and I'm trying to setup a "role" provider.

I see (from machine.config) that there are definitions for two role
providers;

name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"
name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider"

But, while I can understand the concept that my custom role provider is not
going to have the same name as a "built in" role provider I do not know what
to enter for the other attributes. My class handles the connection string.
The "type" is the namespace but is a namespace the same as the class? The
word "namespace" does not appear within my vb class. Does the
"applicationName" need to correspond to the "ApplicationName" property of the
RoleProvider defined within the class?