Where are my Roles being stored?

Question

I've enabled Roles in my ASP.NET web application, but I'm slightly confused as to where they are being stored. In my old project, each Role would appear in the ASP.NET Roles table, and I could see them. However, in my new project, I can't see any Roles in the database table. The strange thing is, I can still use them (and the default Roles/Membership API) and everything works fine. Any ideas why they are not appearing the database table itself, and where they are actually being stored?

My web.config file has this:

<roleManager enabled="true" />

Using the ASP.NET configuration tool, my default Role provider is AspNetSqlRoleProvider.

Thanks Update I added this explicitly in my web.confg

 <roleManager enabled="true" >

      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add connectionStringName="myDBConnectionString" name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"/>
      </providers>
    </roleManager>

Answer 1

By default, it does use the local database unless the role provider points to a database using a different database connection.

If you setup the tables in your own custom database and not the ASPNETDB.mdf file, then you will have to setup a custom provider definition pointing to the SQLroleprovider, and provide a custom connection string reference to where the database is.

HTH.