ASP.NET Membership mdf to SQL Server

Question

I had membership working fine locally. But now need to deploy so created membership tables / stored procedures using the Aspnet_regsql.exe and changed my web.config to point local sqlexpress database instance.

My membership is still working but not using SQL Server. I went and deleted the .mdf file that my connection string was referring to earlier from the APP_DATA folder. My form authentication is still working allowing me to register new users but not using SQL Server!

What is it using?

<remove name="DefaultConnection"/> 
<add name="DefaultConnection" 
     connectionString="server=PC\SQLEXPRESS;Trusted_Connection=true;database=adatabase;"/>

My connection string looks like above. I have one more connection string below this whose value is exactly like this for now, just FYI. All the membership sections like DefaultMembershipProvider use DefaultConnection connection string.

Answer 1

I was looking at this table called dbo.aspnet_Users all this time. There is another table down below called dbo.Users and that is where users are getting created. So IT IS using SQL Server! The Aspnet_regsql.exe tool installed these aspnet_* tables. And it looks like the actual table where users are created is getting created afterwards. I got that from these tables' time stamps - they are over 20 mins apart.