Saving an email change within the default Membership Provider in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I am trying to set and save an email change using within the Membership Provider in ASP.NET MVC 3. I do not know how to properly set and change the email property within th

Answer 1

Try UpdateUser:

var user = Membership.GetUser(id);
user.Email = "new@email.com";
Membership.UpdateUser(user);

Answer 2

I'd like to emphasise a point, following on from @Ecnalyr and @jwaern. When changing the email address, assigning the email address directly as follows did not work:

System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser.email = newEmail '(this won't work)

First, as shown in the responses above, one must assign the MembershipUser to a variable, and only then affect an UpdateUser on that variable.

Dim mu As MembershipUser = System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser
mu.Email = email
Membership.UpdateUser(mu)