ASP.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit

New Post: MVC Preview 4

TroyGoode — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:34:04 GMT

Hi jbkind,

If you are supporting ONLY OpenID for your site (ie: no username/password), I would suggest looking to see if an account exists with a username that matches the specified OpenID url and if not, create a new account for the user with the OpenID url as the username. If you are supporting both OpenID & username/password, you'll have to store a mapping in a database, xml file, whatever that allows you to associate one or more OpenID urls with a specific user account.

The default implementation of AssociateOpenIdIdentityToUserName assumes you will be supporting OpenID only (primarily because there is no good built-in way to store extra data as part of a membership account and then search on it) but does not go through the process of creating a new account if one does not already exist.

New Post: MVC Preview 4

jbkind — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:05:14 GMT

I am having a similar problem trying to authenticate from localhost using my yahoo openId and DotNetOpenId 2.3.1. I get a ClaimedIdentifier with https://me.yahoo.com/a/[userkey], but the AssociateOpenIdIdentityToUserName method is passing this url string into the membershipprovider.getuser (string username) which is returning null. Not entirely sure how I'm supposed to associate the user.

Should I be getting back an email that I can query the membership provider with?

Updated Release: Preview 5 (1.5) (Aug 30, 2008)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:06:03 GMT

Updated to work with Preview 5, as well as taking advantage of the now out-of-the-box login/password-reset functionality provided by Microsoft in Preview 4.

Released: Preview 5 (1.5) (Aug 30, 2008)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:06:03 GMT

Updated to work with Preview 5, as well as taking advantage of the now out-of-the-box login/password-reset functionality provided by Microsoft in Preview 4.

Updated Release: Preview 5 (1.5)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:05:08 GMT

Updated to work with Preview 5, as well as taking advantage of the now out-of-the-box login/password-reset functionality provided by Microsoft in Preview 4.

Source code checked in, #15188

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:53:46 GMT

Removed a deleted file from list of files compressed by template task.

Source code checked in, #15187

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:53:05 GMT

Added out-of-the-box support for OpenID ID Selectors (https://www.idselector.com)

Closed Feature: Multiple login types on one page

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:51:27 GMT

I would like to see regular forms login and OpenId login on the same page when both are enabled.
as done e.g. on
http://www.buzzillions.com/x/login.dox
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/signin

At least, provide links between the different kinds of login pages so that the new user is more aware of them.
Comments: Fixed in 1.5.

Commented Issue: Multiple login types on one page

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:51:04 GMT

OpenID authentication is now handled by a separate controller, which makes it much easier to create a form that supports both login avenues.

Closed Issue: Can't create new roles

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:46:54 GMT

When logged in as Administrator I tried to create a new role and got an error when I clicked Submit:
"the role 'Create' was not found"

Not sure where this belongs - I put it in Discussions too.
Comments: Changing release to 1.5.

Reopened Issue: Can't create new roles

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:46:40 GMT

Changing release to 1.5.

Commented Issue: Can't create new roles

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:46:40 GMT

** Closed by TroyGoode 7/7/2008 8:04 PM

Closed Issue: Can't Save User

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:46:20 GMT

From discussion thread by CarmelFrank:
http://www.codeplex.com/MvcMembership/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=31027

Again, in zip 11261, logged in as Adminsitrator, when I add a comment and click the Submit button, I get the following error:

Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
Exception Details: System.FormatException: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
[InvalidOperationException: Cannot convert parameter 'id' in action 'UserDetails' with value 'Save' to type 'System.Guid'.]
System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.ConvertParameterType(Object value, Type destinationType, String parameterName, String actionName) +573
System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.GetParameterValue(ParameterInfo parameterInfo, IDictionary`2 values) +560
Comments: Changing release to 1.5.

Reopened Issue: Can't Save User

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Changing release to 1.5.

Commented Issue: Can't Save User

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:46:02 GMT

** Closed by TroyGoode 7/7/2008 8:15 PM

New Post: How to use asp.net mvc membership with jquery

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:44:53 GMT

Sam,

Just the act of accessing a server-side ASP.Net script via JQuery will keep the session alive. By default an ASP.Net session lasts for 15 minutes from the time it was last accessed by the user. I'm not entirely certain where you are running into difficulties. If you could provide more clarification I will do my best to help.

New Post: MVC Preview 4

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:43:12 GMT

Hi Anthony & Tim,

I apologize for the bug you ran into, it was caused by incorrect references in the project files that were checked in to source control after updating to DotNetOpenId 2.3.1. Basically when you downloaded the source it was still referencing DotNetOpenId 2.2.1. Unfortunately because of the way I had my project structured on my local drive at the time I did not encounter error (which I created all on my own, no fault to DotNetOpenId).

This was fixed a few weeks ago and should not be an issue moving forward.

New Post: Password administration behavior clarification

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:41:00 GMT

Hi Levous,

I'm glad you were eventually able to get everything working. As you discovered, by default the ASP.Net Membership provider does not let you programmatically reset a user's password without being able to provide (a) the user's current password or (b) the correct answer to the user's security question. There are ways around this, but my intent with this project is to adhere as closely to the intentions of the Membership Provider's defaults as I can. Feel free to make changes as you see fit!

Commented Issue: Can't login after preview 3 update

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:38:11 GMT

I can't login to the sample site anymore with preview 3 update.

Error:

The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /Security/Login
Comments: ** Comment from web user: TroyGoode **

Hi Tony,

I don't think this was related to the web.config after all. Rather it was a bug that I fixed when upgrading to Preview 4 in early August (though I never did provide an actual Preview 4 release, per se). Everything should work fine with the Preview 5 release coming out tonight.

Closed Feature: ID Selector - standard best way to present OpenId Login screen

TroyGoode — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:36:29 GMT

There is a cool free widget at https://www.idselector.com/ which is getting rapid adoption as what an OpenId login "looks like"
Comments: Added in 1.5.