Is it possible to change the username with the Membership API

It’s true that the default SQL Membership Provider does not allow username changes. However, there’s no intrinsic reason to prevent users from changing their usernames if you have a valid argument, on your site, to allow it. None of the tables in the SQL database have the username as a key, everything is based on … Read more

The system cannot find the file specified

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. text Generally issues like this are related to any of the following need to be looked at: firewall settings from the web server to the database server connection string errors enable the appropriate … Read more

Python’s in (__contains__) operator returns a bool whose value is neither True nor False

You are running into comparison operator chaining; 1 in () == False does not mean (1 in ()) == False. Rather, comparisons are chained and the expression really means: (1 in ()) and (() == False) Because (1 in ()) is already false, the second half of the chained expression is ignored altogether (since False … Read more

What is default hash algorithm that ASP.NET membership uses?

EDIT: Do not use the Membership Provider as-is because it is horridly inadequate in terms of protecting user’s passwords In light of the fact that googling “membership provider hashing algorithm” turns up this answer as the first result, and the gospel that will be inferred, it behoves me to warn folks about using the Membership … Read more