I am going through O'REILLY's Learning ASP.NET 3.5 and despite some of the bugs I successfully made my way to Chapter 9: Security. This is where the floor has fallen out from underneath me. It appears the author(s) got tired or something and skipped some of the steps required to actually create Users and the ASPNETDB.MDF file. I had previously put up a post on this site and thankfully someone was able to provide the correct steps needed to create Users.
Unfortunately, the book mentions that the ASPNETDB.MDF is magically created but that is not the case. From what I researched it should have been created when I simply opened the ASP.NET Configuration. I did a search for it and found a copy which was created almost two years ago, probably with a previous version of .NET. I tried this file and as expected the Test Connection button displayed a failed message.
Any help will be greatl ...
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