ASP.NET Universal Providers membership not working when deployed to Azure for pre-existing accounts

Question

I installed the ASP.NET Universal Providers (http://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Providers) to my Azure project because it is supposed to fully support Azure, and the default SqlMembershipProvider has some unsupported SQL.

When debugging in development I am connecting directly to the SQL Azure database.  I used the "ASP.NET Configuration" utility to create some user accounts.  Everything appeared to work great so I deployed to Azure.

However, when I access the deployed site on Azure I can't authenticate with any of the user accounts I created.  I still can when running from the debugger.  I'm guessing when on Azure some salt or other manipulation of the hashed password is applied which is not applied when running locally.

Also, this issue is further exacerbated in my project because we are currently not providing a way in the website to create an account.  Accounts are, for now, being managed manually until the requirements for user management are finalized and we start work on those user stories.

There is a similar post on stackoverflow describing this problem but no answers.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9764720/asp-net-universal-providers-azure-users-created-through-asp-net-configuratio

Anyone have a solution?  This is fairly urgent. I'd hate to have to rollback to the faulty SqlMembershipProvider if Microsoft is claiming the Universal Providers are the preferred approach for Azure: (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingSystemWebProvidersASPNETUniversalProvidersForSessionMembershipRolesAndUserProfileOnSQLCompactAndSQLAzure.aspx)

Thanks.

Answer 1

see here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8415822/asp-net-membership-login-works-locally-fails-on-azure

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Dominick Baier | thinktecture | http://www.leastprivilege.com

Answer 2

That did the trick.  Thanks!