October 2012 - An Insomniac Geek

Membership Provider property must be an instance of ExtendedMembershipProvider

Have you just created an ASP.NET MVC 4 internet project, decided to use the universal providers to utilize SQL Azure? So you have installed the NuGet package Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers and now your project bombs with:

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

You search for a solution, find Jon Galloway article SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates , where he states: “If you want to use the new AccountController, you’ll either need to use the SimpleMembershipProvider or another valid ExtendedMembershipProvider. This is pretty straightforward.”

Well, he fails to describe what you’ll need to do if you want continue to use the AccountController. Fear not, here’s what you’ll have do to.

Edit your web.config and replace:

With:

Are you tired of constantly having to enter your Git password all the time? Here’s how to make life much easier for you by saving the git password in the Mac OSX keychain.

In order to not having enter your git based password every time you perform a git operation, here’s how you can store the git password in the Mac OSX keychain:

Check if you have the credential-osxkeychain helper already installed:

git credential-osxkeychain

If not, the download and install it:

curl http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain -o git-credential-osxkeychain

sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain /usr/local/bin

sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/git-credential-osxkeychain

And make git use the helper:

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

Month: October 2012

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

Membership Provider property must be an instance of ExtendedMembershipProvider

How to save your git password in the Mac OSX keychain

Are you tired of constantly having to enter your Git password all the time? Here’s how to make life much easier for you by saving the git password in the Mac OSX keychain.