asp Membership updating wrong tables

Question

I have an MVC 4 app that I am trying to use Membership to manage Roles and Authentication. The problem I am seeing is that when I open the ASP Configuration app, I add users and I see them show up in the aspnet_users table. But when I go to the mvc app and register a user, it gets saved in the userprofile table.

There is obviously a lot that I don't understand here. When I go to my project in Visual Studio 2012 Express and select the Project Menu and then Configure asp.net, where is the configuration for that app? It seems as though I need to look at the configuration and make sure the connection string is working and that I have the correct provider specified.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

That "ASP Configuration App" (although I'm not sure of what it is) must be using the old ASP.NET Membership whereas your ASP .NET MVC 4 application is using SimpleMembership. MVC 5 uses ASP.NET Identity.

Chronollogically: ASP.NET Membership > SimpleMembership > ASP.NET Identity.

See this question: what is the differences between Membership, SimpleMembership, ASP.NET Identity?

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