Creating a new user using System.Web.Providers within ASP.NET MVC4

Question

I've been able to call Membership.CreateUser which has created the necessary Membership tables within my database, but it hasn't added the newly created user into the Users table and the MembershipCreateStatus = InvalidAnswer - not sure what this means.

public void Register(Register register)
        {
            var member = new System.Web.Providers.DefaultMembershipProvider();
            object guid = Guid.NewGuid();
            MembershipCreateStatus status;

            member.CreateUser(register.Username, register.Password, "", "", "", true, guid, out status);

        }

Configuration:

<profile defaultProvider="DefaultProfileProvider">
      <providers>
        <add name="DefaultProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Providers.DefaultProfileProvider, System.Web.Providers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" applicationName="/" />
      </providers>
    </profile>
    <membership defaultProvider="DefaultMembershipProvider">
      <providers>
        <add name="DefaultMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Providers.DefaultMembershipProvider, System.Web.Providers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/" />
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <roleManager defaultProvider="DefaultRoleProvider">
      <providers>
        <add name="DefaultRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Providers.DefaultRoleProvider, System.Web.Providers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" applicationName="/" />
      </providers>
    </roleManager>

Just realised the status is InvalidAnswer. I'm guessing that's because I've configured it so that it needs a password question and answer? — litterbugkid, Feb 06 '13 at 12:39
on creating user successfully it will assign `MembershipCreateStatus = Success` — Hary, Feb 06 '13 at 12:40
I think I realised that. Do you know how to make it successful? — litterbugkid, Feb 06 '13 at 12:40
Have you checked after changing this `enablePasswordRetrieval="false"` in `web.config` and also try changing like this ` member. `CreateUser(register.Username, register.Password, "an email address", null, null, true, guid, out status);` — Hary, Feb 06 '13 at 12:44
Yes my config is above in the answer and it matches what you said. I'll try using null instead of "" — litterbugkid, Feb 06 '13 at 12:49
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/24029/discussion-between-don-and-neeta) — Hary, Feb 06 '13 at 12:50

Hary · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-06T13:32:40.613

The answer here are based on our discussion.

I assume that you have this specified this in your web.config as enablePasswordRetrieval="false" from your comment

Then this code will work for you

try
{
    object guid = Guid.NewGuid();
    MembershipCreateStatus status;
    MemberShipUser member = Membership.CreateUser(register.Username, register.Password, "an email address here", null, null, true, guid, out status);
}
catch(MembershipCreateUserException ex)
{
    //handle exceptions
}

Creating a new user using System.Web.Providers within ASP.NET MVC4

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