ASP.NET 2.0 Personalization and Membership under Windows Vista

avatar of chassmessengeruser-comCharles Sterling1

If you are have issues getting Asp.net 2.0 membership and personalization running under Vista then you are not alone: there seems to be security issues dynamically creating the database.


Luckily the workaround is pretty straight forward, all you have to do is:


1.  Install SQL Server 2005 Developer edition


2. Create a Database


3. Run the ASPNET_REGSQL utlity 


4. Tell ASP.NET 2.0 to use this database with


<connectionStrings>


<remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>


<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=aspnet;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=sa;Password=Pwd;Pooling=False"/>


</connectionStrings>


Luckily ScottGu has documented these steps  at:


http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/25/423703.aspx

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