>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.


I haven't read the rest of the thread yet, but yes - you add it the same way. It doesn't matter whether it is MVC or not, membership works the same way under the hood.

the CLEAR tag simply removes any existing entries.