MembershipUser.ChangePassword fails without warning - asp.net

If I call user.ChangePassword(oldpass,newpass), and the old password is wrong, or the new password does not meet the provider's complexity requirement , the method fails without warning. is there any way i can find out if there is an error and what the error was.
I can always put these checks in my code, but there should be a way to do it using the Membership APIs

Unfortunately not. The ChangePassword method only returns a simple bool for success/fail.
Your best option on fail would be to display a generic message to the user stating all possible failure reasons... e.g.
Failed to Change Password.
This may have occured because:
The Old Password was incorrect
The New Password failed to meet the required complexibility
New Passwords must be 8 chars long and contain at least 2 numeric characters. (or whatever)
If you want to give more specific information, then as you said, you would need to implement a rules checker in your own code and relay information to the user based on that check.

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Qt - How to list all existing databases on PostgreSQL server using Qt interface

Could someone please explain how to obtain a list of all existing databases on a PostgreSQL server, to which the user already has access, using Qt? PostgreSQL documentation suggests the following query:
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What are the correct parameters to the following functions:
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CreateUserWizard control problem (password issue)?

Every password that i enter and when i click the button, it tells me that the password is wrong. it activates this field in its properties: InvalidPasswordErrorMessage.
I suspect that the user tries to use the password to connect to the database.
Another weird thing, is even when a password fails to be created..(invalid), the control stores the record in the database... for example in the PasswordFailed in the members table, i get a date and the users details (The control did it in a few occassions, which is bad for login)..
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In the membership configuration you will find attributes for setting minimum number of non alpanumeric characters, min length etc. Try lowering all such values and see if it accepts your passwords. A complex password like "abc%12U8" should also be accepted.
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