I have been using the standard login/register facilities provided by VWD in a “production” environment using IIS 7.5 and .Net 4 while continuing with SQL Server Express. I installed SSMSE and attached the aspnet database and after some initial problems with the Connection String (discussed on another thread) everything was fine.

I don’t know what I may have done but "out of the blue" a login or register request continues to be honoured in that the User and Membership table entries are updated, and the Login control's OnLoggedIn event is triggered without error. However the user is not recognised as being logged in as the LoginView control continues to show the Anonymous Template and a request to obtain the MemberShipUser via Membership.GetUser(false) returns "nothing".

The problem is still there after uninstalling SQL Server Express then re-installing (without SSMSE) and using a User Instance. Login/Register actions work but the login is not recognised by other components.

Any suggestions on how to identify the problem would be much appreciated!

Hi there,

Can you post the code for the web.config file and the page? In addition can you describe your setup (where you run this site, how you configured the server and so on)? Also, what happens when you look at User.Identity in the code behind of a page while debugging?

Imar

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Imar - Many thanks for your reply.

I'm afraid I have to confess to an own goal. I hadn't appreciated that logged-in status was indicated by a cookie and that there was no further reference to the database once the login had been completed.

I followed the recommendations in your excellent book to the letter particularly Chapter 19 and Appendix B. Apart from a slight problem with the connection string after attaching the database using SSMSE everything worked fine until login stopped working for no apparent reason.

I have just realised that the problem is due to my changing to an invalid URL address (one including '_' rather than '-' to access my Website. It appears that IE (or ASP.NET?) won't handle cookies associated with such names. After correcting the URL, login is now working once again without problem.

Thank you once more for your reply as it encouraged me to redouble my efforts to solve the problem which I had struggled with for some time!

Regards
Peter