weren't working for me.

I wish i could say it was through superiour debugging prowess i fgured it out when actualaty it ended being GeoffAppleby  reading the documentation to figured it out<g>

Thanks Geoff!

In either case the cause was the config setting below defaults to true...

requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"

More complete Sample below

Protected Sub CreatUser_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CreateUserlnk.Click

Dim newUser As MembershipUser = Membership.CreateUser(UsernameTextbox.Text, PasswordTextbox.Text,email.text)

End Sub

 

<appSettings/>

<connectionStrings>

<add name="ASPNETDBConnectionString1" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\ASPNETDB.MDF;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"

providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

</connectionStrings>

<system.web>

<!--

Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging

symbols into the compiled page. Because this

affects performance, set this value to true only

during development.

-->

<authorization>

<allow users="?" />

</authorization>

<roleManager enabled="true" />

<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="20">

<providers>

<remove name="AspNetSqlProvider" />

<add name="SqlProvider"

type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"

connectionStringName="ASPNETDBConnectionString1"

enablePasswordRetrieval="false"

enablePasswordReset="true"

requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"

passwordFormat="Hashed"

applicationName="/" />

</providers>

</membership>