The membership provider only gets added if you select an Internet application from the template list when you first create the application. You can create a dummy Internet project and compare the results in web.config.

ScottGu blogged about clear http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/11/20/common-gotcha-don-t-forget-to-clear-when-adding-providers.aspx

But note that there were changes in the provider for MVC4. You should read up on these changes.


>Hi everybody,
>
>Hopefully this is an easy question while I am doing some research in this area. I'm working on ASP.NET MVC 4 application. In my colleague's application which is written in plain ASP.NET (not MVC) I see the following section in web.config
>
>

><membership defaultProvider="wwdllMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
>      <providers>
>        <add name="wwdllMembershipProvider" type="wwdllMembershipProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false" writeExceptionsToEventLog="false"/>
>      </providers>
>    </membership>
>    <profile>
>      <providers>
>        <clear/>
>        <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/"/>
>      </providers>
>    </profile>
>    <roleManager enabled="false">
>      <providers>
>        <clear/>
>        <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/"/>
>        <add name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider" applicationName="/"/>
>      </providers>
>    </roleManager>
>
>

>
>First of all, what

<clear/ >

means here?
>
>Secondly, I see nothing in ASP.NET MVC 4 application in regards to membership provider in the web config. Do I still add it the same way in web config there or there is another way?
>
>Thanks in advance.