ASP.NET MVC 4 Template project fails to find 'MySql.Web - asp.net

I have created a new project in ASP.NET MVC 4. Normally you just hit F5 and it runs as a semi empty project. Instead I'm getting:
Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'MySql.Web,
Version=6.7.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d' or
one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
This makes no sense. I have no such entries in my config file and dont event want to use MySql. What has changed in MVC 4? What do I need to do?

I guess your machine.config file has been changed, I suggest take a look at that in either of these locations:
32-bit
x:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[version]\config\machine.config
64-bit
x:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\[version]\config\machine.config
as suggested by Petoj in this post
Where Is Machine.Config?

I was having the same issue ..adding following tags to web.config file worked for me :
<membership defaultProvider="SimpleMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="SimpleMembershipProvider"
type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleMembershipProvider, WebMatrix.WebData"
/>
</providers>
</membership>
<roleManager defaultProvider="SimpleRoleProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="SimpleRoleProvider"
type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleRoleProvider, WebMatrix.WebData"
/>
</providers>
</roleManager>

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Membership and Role Providers when using Oracle Managed Driver

I had some 32bit/64bit issues in one of my web applications after the DB was upgraded to 64 bit 12C and after researching the problems I had encountered, the almost universal answer was "Use Managed Driver and not worry about 32/64 bit issue". So I did. I
downloaded and installed "ODAC 12c Release 4 and Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (12.1.0.2.4)" from here,
removed references to Oracle.Web and Oracle.DataAccess (unmanaged
drivers) in my app and added reference to new managed driver "Oracle.ManagedDataAccess"
changed all the "using Oracle.Web", "using Oracle.DataAccess.Client"
to "using Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client"
But I cannot find one document that tells me how web config file needs to be modified to use managed driver.
Do I need to make any changes to <connectionStrings> section?
Do I need to add additional sections to make use of managed driver?
What do I need to change in Membership and Role Providers sections? The existing providers refer to Oracle.Web.Security.OracleRoleProvider and once upgrading to Managed version, all references to Oracle.Web and Oracle.DataAccess has to be removed.
If anyone has gone through the pain, please share your solutions to these, any other issues I might run into once these are resolved.
This is a sample of current web config file that I think needs to be changed/removed:
<connectionStrings>
<clear/>
<add name="MSAConnectionString" connectionString="User Id=Some_User;Password=SomePwd;Data Source=(DESCRIPTION =(ADDRESS_LIST =(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 10.20.30.40)(PORT = 1521)))(CONNECT_DATA =(SID = MSA))); Min Pool Size=10;Max Pool Size=300;Incr Pool Size=5;Decr Pool Size=2;"/>
</connectionStrings>
<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
<assemblies>// next two line will have to be removed, since DLLs no longer referenced
<add assembly="Oracle.DataAccess, Version=2.121.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89B483F429C47342"/>
<add assembly="Oracle.Web, Version=2.121.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89B483F429C47342"/>
<add assembly="System.DirectoryServices, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
</assemblies>
</compilation>
<membership defaultProvider="DSSOracleMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<add name="DSSOracleMembershipProvider" type="Oracle.Web.Security.OracleMembershipProvider, Oracle.Web, Version=2.121.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89b483f429c47342" connectionStringName="MSAConnectionString" applicationName="/" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="4" minRequiredPasswordLength="9" passwordAttemptWindow="8"/>
</providers>
</membership>
<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="DSSOracleRoleProvider">
<providers>
<add name="DSSOracleRoleProvider" type="Oracle.Web.Security.OracleRoleProvider, Oracle.Web, Version=2.121.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89b483f429c47342" connectionStringName="MSAConnectionString" applicationName="/"/>
</providers>
</roleManager>
A few thoughts:
1) Membership is part of Oracle.Web - so you will still need those references - I like to add this to the runtime section in the web.config for good measure:
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Oracle.Web" publicKeyToken="89b483f429c47342" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.121.2.1" newVersion="4.121.2.1" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
2) VS2015 NuGet can help you get the Oracle managed client installed; however, it could be as simple as global substituting Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client for Oracle.DataAccess.Client. (Leave Oracle.Web alone!)
3) additional tuning for your ADO.net pool may be required (in connection strings) - see here: ODP.NET error in IIS: ORA-12357 Network Session End of file
Also the 2.x drivers are for ASP.NET 2.0 - the 4.x are ASP.NET 4.0 - looks like your pointing to the wrong framework.

How do I stop using ASPNETDB.MDF in LocalDB?

I implemented ASP.NET Identity and it automatically created ASPNETDB.MDF and aspnetdb_log.ldf in my App_Data folder. I already have the AspNet tables (i.e., AspNetRoles, AspNetUsers, etc) in my SQL Express instance (which is where all my other tables are sitting). As far as I can see, my application is reading and writing membership and role data from the SQL Express database and not ASPNETDB.MDF.
I have set my connectionString in web.config to:
<add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="Data Source=MyComputerName\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=MyDatabaseName;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
However, if I remove ASPNETDB.MDF from App_Data, I get the following error when I login:
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: One or more files do not match the primary file of the database. If you are attempting to attach a database, retry the operation with the correct files. If this is an existing database, the file may be corrupted and should be restored from a backup.
Cannot open user default database. Login failed.
Login failed for user 'MyComputerName\MyUserName'.
Log file 'C:\Users\MyProjectName\App_Data\aspnetdb_log.ldf' does not match the primary file. It may be from a different database or the log may have been rebuilt previously
The error goes away once I add ASPNETDB.MDF back to App_Data.
I have searched all the code in my solution and it makes no reference to ASPNETDB. So why is it still trying to read from it?
I am developing ASP.NET web forms on .Net 4.5.
I was getting exactly the same problem. I discovered that VS annoyingly pulls in config settings from machine.config, which lives outside of the project, in my case in...
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config
Identity 2.0 had used the following connection string inside machine.config...
<connectionStrings>
<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>
to set up a connection for...
<membership>
<providers>
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, ........" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1" passwordAttemptWindow="10" passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""/>
</providers>
</membership>
.. (which was also set in machine.config). If you haven't been using Membership then it's fine to do as Lord nick suggests (except just the clear/ will do the job) and simply do the following in web.config...
<connectionStrings>
<clear/>
<add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="whatever" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
However, if you, like me, previously had Membership running (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6e9y4s5t(v=vs.100).aspx), you will need to comment out or delete the following sections from machine.config...
<!--
<membership>
<providers>
...
</providers>
</membership>
<profile>
<providers>
...
</providers>
</profile>
<roleManager>
<providers>
..
</providers>
</roleManager>
-->
... since all this stuff is no longer needed for AspNet Identity 2.
I also had to add the following into in my web.config:
<modules>
<remove name="RoleManager"/>
</modules>
... as per this answer: Default Role Provider could not be found on IIS 7 running .NET 4
I hope I've saved someone some time. This took me hours and hours to work out.
I had the same Problem where the ASPNETDB.MDF was automatically created, even if I use Asp.Net Identity as the main user management.
I solved it by removing the following line from web.config:
<roleManager enabled="true" />
This one tells ASP.NET to use the older ASP.NET Membership user management, which is not supported by ASP.NET Identity.
It seems you have something like in your web.config
<add name="DefaultConnectionForLocalDb" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDb)\v11.0;..."; />
In your AccountModels.cs file, you have:
public class UsersContext : DbContext
{
public UsersContext()
: base("DefaultConnectionForLocalDb")
{
}
}
However it should be this way:
<add name="DefaultConnectionForSQLEXPRESS" connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;...;" />
public class UsersContext : DbContext
{
public UsersContext()
: base("DefaultConnectionForSQLEXPRESS")
{
}
}
Then you can remove safely DefaultConnectionForLocalDb entry from your web.config and ASPNETDB.MDF from to App_Data.
I don't know if you've figured this out or not but one of the things you can try is: in web.config, connections section, add <Clear/> and then <Remove Name=LocalSqlServer/>
Apparently if you don't change/remove the LocalSqlServe will still try to connect to the aspnetdb.mdf.
You might also think about adding back in the LocalSqlServer and having it point to your SqlExpress or SqlServer.

ASP web.config path -> cannot load file

I try to use asp:login with my own membershipprovider, but when I write this code I got problem with type, concretly I get error that I am not able to load ~/App_Data/MyMembershipProvider
<membership defaultProvider="default">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="default" type="/~App_Data/MyMembershipProvider"/>
</providers>
</membership>
The type needs to be of the format Namespace.ClassName.
You might have to deploy the assembly to the GAC or in the bin folder and then provide the type as CustomNamespace.CustomMembershipProvider

SimpleMembershipProvider not working

I started a new internet project with VS2012 and am trying to just restructure my project a bit and I can't seem to keep the SimpleMemberhsipProvider working. Basically, all I've done is move the models objects into a core project along with a couple other items. I've implemented Ninject and am trying to abstract Entity a bit by using a repository pattern to get my data. I really don't feel as though I've changed much with the current project, but for some reason when I start the application now I get:
{"The Role Manager feature has not been enabled."}
The ActionFilter that is supplied by the framework is where the error is thrown when:
WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DefaultConnection", "UserProfile", "Id", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
is called.
Here is some of the stacktrace:
[ProviderException: The Role Manager feature has not been enabled.]
System.Web.Security.Roles.EnsureEnabled() +9561885
System.Web.Security.Roles.get_Provider() +8
WebMatrix.WebData.WebSecurity.InitializeProviders(DatabaseConnectionInfo
connect, String userTableName, String userIdColumn, String
userNameColumn, Boolean autoCreateTables) +104
WebMatrix.WebData.WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection(String
connectionStringName, String userTableName, String userIdColumn,
String userNameColumn, Boolean autoCreateTables) +100
InoutBoard.Core.Infrastructure.Filters.SimpleMembershipInitializer..ctor()
in c:\Users\Kyle\Documents\Visual Studio
2012\Projects\InoutBoard\InoutBoard.Core\Infrastructure\Filters\InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs:42
[InvalidOperationException: The ASP.NET Simple Membership database
could not be initialized. For more information, please see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=256588]
InoutBoard.Core.Infrastructure.Filters.SimpleMembershipInitializer..ctor()
in c:\Users\Kyle\Documents\Visual Studio
2012\Projects\InoutBoard\InoutBoard.Core\Infrastructure\Filters\InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs:46
I'm hosting the code on github at the following link https://github.com/keroger2k/InoutBoard
First way
Check the sphair's answer out (in current thread).
Second way
Add following assemblies to the web.config:
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="WebMatrix.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
<add assembly="WebMatrix.WebData, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
</assemblies>
</compilation>
</system.web>
Update
The WebMatrix.WebData assembly contains a start up method to initialize Membership/Role providers and enable RoleManager (PreApplicationStartCode.Start). But ASP.NET couldn't find that to run in your case. By adding these two lines of code, we force ASP.NET to search these assemblies for PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute(s).
In case others are getting this error and the above solution doesn't work, like in my case. It said invalid child object when I tried to add in the assemblies markup. I had to specify the roleManager and membership tags as below. Once I did that the update-database worked.
<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>
I had the exact same error running at my hosting company (WinHost.com - they are excellent BTW).
My solution was to add to the web.config:
<appSettings>
<add key="enableSimpleMembership" value="true" />
</appSettings>
Instead of adding the assemblies to the web.config as Mehdi Golchin suggests, an alternative is to change the assembly references on WebMatrix.Data and WebMatrix.WebData to CopyLocal=True.
add the key to the Web.Config as the page:
http://devbla.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/corrigindo-o-erro-no-aspnet-the-role-manager-feature-has-not-been-enabled/
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What are the minimum permissions for connectionUsername when using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider

I am writing an ASP.NET application using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider, similar to the scenario outlined here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/securitywiki/aspnet2formsauthtoadrolesinadintranet/
As part of this setup, I configured ASP.NET Membership as follows:
<membership defaultProvider="MyADMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<add
name="MyADMembershipProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
connectionStringName="ADConnectionString"
connectionUsername="testdomain\administrator"
connectionPassword="password"/>
</providers>
</membership>
This works, but in production I would like to use a connectionUsername with minimum permissions to anything else, instead of "Administrator". What are the minimum permissions that should be assigned to this account?
See the note in the "Connecting to Active Directory" section at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998360.aspx.

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