Membership Management for ASP.NET MVC release 1.0

update: checkout this post: Visual Studio Content Installer for Asp.Net MVC Membership Management

With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, there is no "out of the box" solution for maintaining the Membership and Role databases in Microsoft IIS. This is a problem when you move your application from development to a production IIS server. The utility that Microsoft provides, ASP.NET Web Configuration, can be run only in a development, non-production environment.

This sources and its associated code solve this by implementing solution to Member and Role management while using standard Microsoft ASP.NET MVC tools. This means that it will run in any ASP.NET MVC 1.0 environment, including IIS.

I found 3 projects for membership management were 2 of them are outdated and one is not working with current asp.net mvc release 1.0 (ASP.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit). Some of my code is based on the started kit but most stuff I had to rewrite or make coding changes to make it work with asp.net mvc release 1.0.

I'm writing already 2 open source projects therfore I'm not able to share this sources for free and I plan to sell you full source bundle for around 30 EURO. In the meanwhile, if you're interessted in the code you welcome to drop me a line (schuetz [@] gmail [dot] com).

Please use this page to donate the amount.


Please notice that MVC is a precondition for this project.

The asp.net mvc membership management contains the following functionality:

• Dashboard
• Browse Users
• User -> Details
• User -> User's Roles
• User -> Reset Password
• User -> Delete User
• Browse Roles
• Roles -> Users in Roles
• Statistical Information
• Statistical Information -> Registerd users past 7 days (visualization with chart.apis.google.com)
• Statistical Information -> Registerd users past 12 months (visualization with chart.apis.google.com)
• Statistical Information -> Not approved users past 12 months (visualization with chart.apis.google.com)

Additinal functionality will be implemented after rel. 1. Have a look at the following printscreens to get an impression what you'll get. I plan to extend this unti l its gonna be a real managment application and as more people will use it as bigger the motivation :-)

INFO: ALL UPDATES WILL BE FREE!!

ASP.NET MVC Linklist

• http://blog.wekeroad.com/
• Exploring System.Web.Routing
• Setting up authentication in asp.net MVC
• Using System.Web.Abstractions in Your WebForms Apps
• ASP.NET MVC Request Flow
• Hierarchical Treeview with ASP.NET MVC & jQuery
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #1 - Accessing TempData from a ViewUserControl
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #2 - Redirecting to another action and passing information to it
• ASP.NET MVC Tip # 3 - Getting an Absolute Url Using an Extension Method
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #4 - Handling Multiple Form Actions on One View
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #5 - Submitting an AJAX Form with jQuery
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #6 - Code Snippets for Quickly Testing Routes
• ASP.NET MVC Tip # 7 - Using a CAPTCHA with MVC (http://www.coderjournal.com/2008/03/aspnet-mvc-captcha/)
• Using the ComponentController in ASP.NET MVC CTP 2
• Fluent Filters, IQueryable and Linq To Sql for Easy Data Access
• HowTo: ASP.NET Chart Controls mit ASP.NET MVC nutzen
• HowTo: ASP.NET MVC Projekt erstellen (erster Einstieg)
• HowTo: ASP.NET MVC - Was ist es und warum sollte man es sich anschauen?
• LINQ to MSI - Part 0 - Introduction
• Linq to SQL Wish List
• # 7 - (re)Creating your DB with Linq’s DataContext for testing
• TDD Tips: Test Naming Conventions & Guidelines
• # 8 - Introduction to Mocking with Moq
• 3 mistakes to avoid when using jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX
• Implementing the Repository Pattern with Linq-to-Sql
• Mocking LINQ to SQL DataContext
• Code Generation Tool (SqlMetal.exe)
• More In LINQ to SQL with the Repository Pattern
• LINQ to SQL - Implementing the Repository pattern
• Getting Expressive: Digging deep into Expression Trees Part 1
• Getting Expressive: Digging Deep into Expression Trees Part 2
• Linq to SQL DataContext Lifetime Management
• Business Object wrapper around LINQ to SQL
• Visual WebGui and a LINQ to SQL quirk
• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 2/4/2008+

MSBuild and MVC - does not work?

After I have added my sample MVC Solution to TFS I configured my build client to run a daily build. Challanges at this step:

- Issue: I missed to configure the Build Machine Port 9191

- how to solve: Open firewall and configure port 9191

Once I was able to connect to the build client from TFS when I queued a new build it failed. After googling a while i found a lot of people they had the same problem to build automatically mvc. the good thing is: "I'm not alone with building MVC applications with MSBuild"!

- Issue: Targets are not defined, but what the hell are those targets?

- how to solve:

- Step 1: Navigate at your development machine to the following location:

"C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0”

- Step 2: everything within this folder i have copied to my build client at the same location.

- Step 3: i downloaded MVC from http://www.asp.net/mvc again on my build client and installed it.

- Step 4: Added a new Build in my Visual Studio and it succeeded :-)