In an attempt to solve some of the basic problems with getting the Membership and Roles providers to work out of the box, I'd like to take a minute to talk about their default setup. The default Membership and Roles providers are Sql based and target...

After spending 2.5 years on the ASP.NET test team, it's about time to start a blog to answer common questions covering the features I own - mainly Membership and RoleManager. I've found myself answering the same questions repeatedly in various public...