title: MVC4 Simple Membership Provider setup
body: <p>I would like to use mvc4 Simple membership provider. So I set up a new MVC4 internet application. Click Debug and I see that db and tables were created for me.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MCrzY.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Is this all I need to do?. 
  Some articles:
  <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/08/29/simplemembership-membership-providers-universal-providers-and-the-new-asp-net-4-5-web-forms-and-asp-net-mvc-4-templates.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/08/29/simplemembership-membership-providers-universal-providers-and-the-new-asp-net-4-5-web-forms-and-asp-net-mvc-4-templates.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://blog.longle.net/2012/09/25/seeding-users-and-roles-with-mvc4-simplemembershipprovider-simpleroleprovider-ef5-codefirst-and-custom-user-properties/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blog.longle.net/2012/09/25/seeding-users-and-roles-with-mvc4-simplemembershipprovider-simpleroleprovider-ef5-codefirst-and-custom-user-properties/</a></p>
  
  <p>tell me to add </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;membership defaultProvider &gt;...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>section. is this necessary?</p>
  
  <p>Also:
  I can't get ASP.Net configuration tool to work. It says "An error was encountered. Please return to the previous page and try again. "</p>
  
  <p>??</p>