machinekey

There seems to be parts of the answers to my problem spread over multiple posts but putting it together hasn't worked so far for me, so I hope when this post is answered it will form more complete guide The problem I have an ASP.NET webforms application (W1) and I would like to begin an upgrade to a separate MVC application (M1) over a period of time. The solution containing W1 has been upgraded to 4.5 and M1 has been created in the solution. W1 uses the ASP.Net membership framework. The test case In M1, I added the Authorize attribute to the About page in the HomeController [Authorize] public

I want to adjust the machine keys dynamically in code during runtime, for an IIS hosted ASP.NET MVC 4 website. The machine keys, encryption and validation keys as well as algorithms to use, are stored in a database. Instead of reading the values from the web.config file, I want to inject those values during application startup and let the system use those instead. Is there any way to accomplish that without having to change web.config at all (to only change the in memory configuration)? I have tried accessing the configuration section but it is marked as readonly and is also sealed, so I

I'm running an Azure Website. Whenever I deploy, everyone gets logged out because the machineKey changes. I specified the machineKey in the web.config but this didn't solve the issue. I believe this is because Azure automatically overwrites the machineKey [1] . I've found a couple of similar questions here but the answers link to dead links. So, what's the solution? Surely there's a way to keep users logged in regardless of deployments on Azure. Try to reset the machine-key configuration section upon Application_Start : protected void Application_Start() { // ... var mksType = typeof

I am receiving the following error at certain times on asp.net website. Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey> configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster. When page refresh goes,no problem.How can I solve this problem? mBotros If you're using a web farm and running the same application on multiple computers, you need to define the machine key explicitly in the machine.config file: <machineKey