Hi Natalia,

When adding the UmbracoMembershipProvider in your web.config, did you also add the "Umbraco specific" attributes, like MemberTypeAlias?

Cheers,

Michael.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

My membership section in web.config looks like this:

<membership defaultProvider="UmbracoMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider"
             type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider"
             enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
             enablePasswordReset="false"
             requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
             defaultMemberTypeAlias="Another Type"
             passwordFormat="Hashed" />
      </providers>
    </membership>

Hi Natalia,

Then I think the problem comes from the value of the defaultMemberTypeAlias attribute, which is set to "Another Type". The value of that attribute should be the alias name of an actual member type in the Umbraco back-end.

In the Umbraco back-end, if you go to the "Members" section, one of the root nodes of the tree that appears is "Member Types". You should use the alias of an existing type, or else create e new member type, and use the alias as value of the attribute in the web.config.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Michael.

Unfortunately that didn't help... I'm still getting the same error.

But thanks anyway.

Natalia,

Maybe a stupid question, but did you take over the database connection string in the web.config of your MVC sub-app?

Cheers,

Michael.

Hi,

Yes, I use the same connection string and it works - I've got access to other database tables.

Hi Natalia,

Did you ever figure this problem out..??

I had the same problem until I added in the following appSetting:

<add key="umbracoDbDSN" value="server=localhost;database=MSSM;trusted_connection=true;" />

This got me past the "object reference not set to an instance of an object" problem, but then I immediately get w3wp.exe errors and VS2010 trying to debug.

When I get into VS2010 it says 

Cannot evaluate expression because the current thread is in a stack overflow state.

Would love to get this nailed...

I've tried using a standard, non-umbraco, membership database, and the page/login/everything works fine...

If anyone has a working example of this, it would be awesome if you could post a link to the code..

Hi guys,

For those that are having issues with this, I got it working today, for a plain asp.net site.

I followed all the steps above, but also had to create a /config/umbracoSettings.config file..  mine was originally copied from another umbraco site, but then I started playing around with it and it's now blank...  It seems that the file just needs to exist to stop the overflow issue..

Hope that helps..

Hi,

Can you send me the project you were able to run? I still have some issues... Maybe I'm doing something else wrong. Your code could help

sure...  whats your email address...??  I couldn't get it from your profile...

Are you getting a new error..???

natalia.langa at gmail.com

It's an error with "umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider" type of my UmbracoMembershipProvider.

i also got same error on Registeration page

login works super fine plz help

Thanks Michael 

defaultMemberTypeAlias helped me sooooo much

Hi Mohsin,

Glad to hear that ;-)

Cheers,

Michael.

I know this thread is old - but I had something similar working on v4 - but I'm not able to upgrade it to v6 :(

I'm not actually sure why I need to change anything - but the login fails if I leave the old versions of the libraries.

If I try to install just the UmbracoCms.Core package then my site randomly crashes after a short time with an error in Umbraco.Core.dll:

System.NullReferenceException was unhandled - Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in Umbraco.Core.dll - Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

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