I am using  aspnet Membership for user management,

but user is to be created using custom controls - not using createuserwizard control

but using login control  and password recovery control

my problem: is it really possible, then how?

password and password answer is seen as encrypted in the databaae (I already created

aspnet_users,aspnet_membership etc tables using the aspnet_regsql utility)

when I using custom code to insert data into these tables how can I get UserId?

which algorithm is to be used to encrypt password

see my webconfig - relevent portion

<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider">
      <providers>
        <add name="SqlProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider,System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
         connectionStringName="connectionString" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
         applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true" passwordFormat="Encrypted"
         description="Stores and retrieves membership data from a Microsoft SQL Server database."/>
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <machineKey validationKey= "88B4F4E68FF634B4DE1C0B4E31509B9C2F8AA1CA8990CDA6A8891842AA9CCFB56A6C25258181CEBFE1E9CDD192B502A899C0E0CC4C0A242AE2B81A11AC518D91"
    decryptionKey= "B32E80A40DB95DC764304D86B9C948B95797EB9F41867B764196485F2174E641"  
    validation="SHA1" decryption="AES"/>

 Is it that you want to create your own form with custom parameters, but still want to use the asp.net Membership Part?

I have a posting in this section about doing just that it took me 3 weeks to patch together from various tutorials and vidoes before i threw away the createuser which is great but has limitations for real world application, like for people like me who want names and addresses.

http://forums.asp.net/t/1375441.aspx

The last post on the page is my final code

The first section is how to bypass the automatic settings of the createuser and add them to your custom form, the second is entering the additional information into a separate table in the database and assign a role at the same time.

If you need further help, keep posting here.

This will still keep the password recovery and login controls useable on your site

Kindly read my post once again,

I don't want to use createuserwizard, but using my custom markup and code=behind

i want to insert data into membership schema tables

how can do? it is the problem - encrypting password and using password salt, encrypted answer

are giving me headache

 use the link above using the codebehind I have used, it uses the ASP membership class and records the info into the ASPNETDB., all while NOT using the create user wizard