SqlMembershipProvider question

[anon2005]

I'm writing an installed for my application that uses a
SqlMembershipProvider. I'd like to have the installer automatically
set up the required roles and users for the application, but I can't
quite get this to work from a web form. Anyone have tips/ideas to get
this to work? Kind of a hack approach is to: 1. run the queries myself
that insert new users/roles, 2. run a setup page in the web app that
does it.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Guest]

You'll probably need to write a separate console app that gets run as a
Custom Action as part of the install. You can hook this up in the standard
Visual Studio.NET Setup project in the appropriate editor.
Peter

 

[anon2005]

Thanks Peter,

In my original post I should've said "I can't quite get this to work
from a Win Form" -- the installer is a Win Forms application. How
exactly can I invoke some of the membership methods from a non-web app
(ie console or winform)?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Guest]

Provided that you've set a reference to the correct assembly, I don't know of
any reason why you can't access these methods from any .net app.
Peter