How do I use my own database with SimpleMembership and WebSecurity? What is MVC4 security all about?

See the summaries below each quote for a quick answer, and the paragraphs for detail. Also see the References section at the end for the authoritative sources. Summaries 1.What is SimpleMembership/SimpleMembershipProvider (WebMatrix.WebData) and what is it/are they responsible for? SimpleMembership (a term that covers both the SimpleMembershipProvider and SimpleRoleProvider) is responsible for providing a clean … Read more

Why is included in the following example?

ASP.NET grants access from the configuration file as a matter of precedence. In case of a potential conflict, the first occurring grant takes precedence. So, deny user=”?” denies access to the anonymous user. Then allow users=”dan,matthew” grants access to that user. Finally, it denies access to everyone. This shakes out as everyone except dan,matthew is … Read more

How to assign Profile values?

I had the same problem today, and learned a lot. There are two kinds of project in Visual Studio — “Web Site Projects” and “Web Application Projects.” For reasons which are a complete mystery to me, Web Application Projects cannot use Profile. directly… the strongly-typed class is not magically generated for you from the Web.config … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)