How can I Install Membership, Roles and Profile on my Hosted Site?
This one (or variations of it) has come up frequently in the last week or so on ASP.NET newsgroup and forum posts, so I thought it would be appropriate to take another stab at providing some help. The first thing we want to do is to enable our database for the providers. There are actually three separate ways you can do this: 1) Run ASPNET_REGSQL and follow the prompts. Of course, this requires that you have command-prompt access to the machine on which your site will be deployed. For hosted solutions this is obviously not available to us. "Where is 'ASPNET_REGSQL.EXE'", you say? You know the old Chinese proverb about "teach a man to fish?" BTW, when you do find it, you'll of course know that as with most command - line utilities, you can type /? after the name of the executable at a command prompt and see a help listing of commands. 2) Run ASP.NET_REGSQL.EXE on your own sample database locally, and EXPORT all the sql script necessary to create the tabl...