To call this method, the "Membership.Provider" property must be an instance of "ExtendedMembershipProvider"

Question

Currently whenever I try to register a user or login using the default membership services built into ASP.Net MVC4 on my host provider DiscountASP I receive the error

To call this method, the "Membership.Provider" property must be an instance of "ExtendedMembershipProvider".

This doesn't happen locally.

Here is my InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)]
public sealed class InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    private static SimpleMembershipInitializer _initializer;
    private static object _initializerLock = new object();
    private static bool _isInitialized;

    public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        // Ensure ASP.NET Simple Membership is initialized only once per app start
        LazyInitializer.EnsureInitialized(ref _initializer, ref _isInitialized, ref _initializerLock);
    }

    private abstract class SimpleMembershipInitializer
    {
        protected SimpleMembershipInitializer()
        {
            Database.SetInitializer<UsersContext>(null);

            try
            {
                using (var context = new UsersContext())
                {
                    if (!context.Database.Exists())
                    {
                        // Create the SimpleMembership database without Entity Framework migration schema
                        ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.CreateDatabase();
                    }
                }

                WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DefaultConnection", "UserProfile", "UserId", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("The ASP.NET Simple Membership database could not be initialized. For more information, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=256588", ex);
            }
        }
    }
}

Here is a full screenshot of the error:

Does anyone know how I can fix this or know an article that addresses it?

Answer 1

Try setting the following up in your web.config within the <system.web> node:

    <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="SimpleRoleProvider">
        <providers>
            <clear />
            <add name="SimpleRoleProvider" type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleRoleProvider, WebMatrix.WebData" />
        </providers>
    </roleManager>
    <membership defaultProvider="SimpleMembershipProvider">
        <providers>
            <clear />
            <add name="SimpleMembershipProvider" type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleMembershipProvider, WebMatrix.WebData" />
        </providers>
    </membership>
    <sessionState mode="InProc" customProvider="DefaultSessionProvider">
        <providers>
            <add name="DefaultSessionProvider" type="System.Web.Providers.DefaultSessionStateProvider, System.Web.Providers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" />
        </providers>
    </sessionState>

Sounds like SimpleMembership isn't recognized when you go to use it.

Also, it may be worth including, the WebMatrix.webData library can be installed via NuGet:

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.WebData

Answer 2

Try to change the Login function under AccountController.cs

        //
    // POST: /Account/Login

    [AllowAnonymous]
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Login(LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            if (Membership.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password))
            {
                FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);
                if (Url.IsLocalUrl(returnUrl))
                {
                    return Redirect(returnUrl);
                }
                else
                {
                    return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
            }
        }

        // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
        return View(model);
    }

Answer 3

Did steps above but that didn't help. What helped was changing web.config:

      <dependentAssembly>
    <assemblyIdentity name="WebMatrix.Data" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.1.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
  </dependentAssembly>
          <dependentAssembly>
    <assemblyIdentity name="WebMatrix.WebData" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.1.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
  </dependentAssembly>

Answer 4

I had the same error, but it was 100% references for me. I have had trouble getting WebMatrix.WebSecurity working several times...each time is because I did not create the project using the MVC 4 Internet template.

The key is that the references and config work by default in the template, so just recreate your project and it will be fine.

My fix is: 1. Back up my project to another folder. 2. Check out all files 3. Create a new MVC 4 Internet project, under the exact same name. 4. Copy + Paste (overwrite) the original project. 5. Add any missing references, changed routes, .config settings/DB connections.