Programmatically Assigning Roles to Users?

eddiemcham · June 9th, 2009, 10:51 AM

Hi Imar,

Everything appears to be in order....at long last.

The only remaining oddity is the CreateUser control. It does create new users, and they do appear in the database. But the control acts inconsistently when a new user is created.

Most of the time, instead of getting the "successfully created" message and Continue button, I get the validation message "Please enter a different user name." This occurs even with users who have never been entered before. Once or twice I did get the "successfully created" message, but there was nothing I could see that was unique to that user that shouldn't have also applied to the others.

I went through the control's settings to see if maybe I flipped something I shouldn't have, but all looks in place. Have you ever encountered this?

Logging in/out and accessing "Forgot Password" all work fine as well, except for the email part of the latter, but I think that's because I'm currently running this off my localhost (desktop) rather than our production web server. Hopefully when it migrates there, that problem will go away.

Thanks again!
~e

Imar · June 9th, 2009, 02:19 PM

That's odd indeed. The CreateUserWizard usually works fine for me. Can the database be reached in time? Can you see the code firing twice maybe?

I think the "ShowRandomOddBehavior" property of the CreateUserWizard was dropped in one of the earlier betas ;-)

With regards to the mail: you can configure a mail server under <system.net> in web.config, or better yet: configure a local drop folder. Much easier on a local development machine.

Cheers,

Imar

Johndecoville · June 17th, 2009, 02:03 PM

Thank you, Imar, for your prompt reply on the behavior change when SP1 is posted. I was pulling my hair and decided to check the posts. This answers it.

I want to let you know how grateful I am to have gotten your book and not some other one. Other (beginning ASP.NET) students in my class bought other books and became totally confused. Your book has made it possible to study, out of a book, and actually learn ASP.NET. Thanks.

Where do I go, Imar, to let Wrox or Amazon know my review of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB?

Cheers!

--John deCOVILLE

Imar · June 17th, 2009, 05:50 PM

Hi John,

Thank you thank you thank you. Much appreciated!

Quote:

Where do I go, Imar, to let Wrox or Amazon know my review of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB?

Amazon.com would be a great place for a review.

And I think by posting what you just posted, you already let Wrox and me know what you think of the book ;-)

Cheers,

Imar