I have written a custom role provider for my webapp. I have included proper arguments in my webconfig... however when I navigate to my site i am getting some sorta funny error.

included: Error Output, Relevant web.config snippet.

Error:

Parser Error Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

Line 79:         <add
Line 80:           name="myroleprovider"
Line 81:           type="aarons.Mine.MyRoleProvider"
Line 82:           applicationName="MyRoleProvider"
Line 83:           connectionStringName="MySqlConnection" 

 Web.config

<roleManager defaultProvider="myroleprovider"
      enabled="true"
      cacheRolesInCookie="true"
      cookieName=".ASPROLES"
      cookieTimeout="30"
      cookiePath="/"
      cookieRequireSSL="false"
      cookieSlidingExpiration="true"
      cookieProtection="All">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add
          name="myroleprovider"
          type="aarons.Mine.MyRoleProvider"
          applicationName="MyRoleProvider"
          connectionStringName="MySqlConnection"
          writeExceptionsToEventLog="false" />
      </providers>
    </roleManager>
    <membership defaultProvider="mymembershipprovider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add
          name="mymembershipprovider"
          type="MyMembershipProvider"
          connectionStringName="MySqlConnection"
          passwordFormat="Hashed" />
      </providers>
    </membership>

MyRoleProvider.cs - sits inside the app_code dir alongside my membership provider.. when role provider is sert to false everything works smoothly.

namespace aarons.Mine
{
public sealed class MyRoleProvider : RoleProvider
{ 
    private string eventSource = "MyRoleProvider"; //Application Name
    private string eventLog = "Application"; //Log Title
    private string exceptionMessage = "An exception occurred. Please check the Event Log."; //General Exception msg
    private ConnectionStringSettings pConnectionStringSettings; //The connection String settings
    private string connectionString;//self explanatory
    private bool pWriteExceptionsToEventLog = false;
    public bool WriteExceptionsToEventLog

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That should be enough info to help me out. If not I will add more as needed. Dont know why im getting such an error! grr :Confused:

Sincerest,

Aaron 

The Problem has been solved it was due to a configurationmanager not accessing the webconfig correctly... had to figure this out since im running on a shared server with limited access the only way i was able to solve this riddle was by copying the website locally and then running the .net server locally under debug. grr for aspnets most ambiguous error messages!

Aaron