Well it turns out that I have extended the membership provider but forgot to extend the role provider. So even though the membership provider was quite happy looking at my connectionstring the default Role Provider was searching for an SQLExpress install.
gumby2701
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Re: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL ...
Oct 16, 2008 07:09 AM|LINK
Well it turns out that I have extended the membership provider but forgot to extend the role provider. So even though the membership provider was quite happy looking at my connectionstring the default Role Provider was searching for an SQLExpress install.
Oh well hope someone learns from my mistakes :)
Cheers