Membership.ValidateUser always returns false after upgrade to VS 2010 / .NET 4.0

Question

Not sure whether this pertains to VS 2010 or to the upgraded framework, but... we are using the Oracle membership provider to authenticate users. Prior to the upgrade everyt

Answer 1

Sounds a little bit like the problem I am having..

Adding a machineKey element to web.config instead of hashAlgorithmType="SHA1" fixed the problem.. but I still don't understand why I need to put that there... haven't been able to find any documentation either..

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