web.config makes custom membership provider not work?

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Can someone explain why when I have this in my web.config:

<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="true" />

I get this error pointing at my custom membership provider:

The pre-application start initialization method Start on type 
System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.PreApplicationStartCode

Also, I never added that entry to my web.config; Visual Studio must have done it for me when I added .cshtml file to my web form project. Supposedly that entry tells asp.net not to render .cshtml files?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4886095/what-is-the-function-of-webpagesenabled-in-mvc-3-web-config — Tomas Voracek, Jul 01 '11 at 21:23
I read/understand the explanation given in that thread, it doesn't answer my question though... — Aaron Barker, Jul 04 '11 at 04:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 16 '13 at 06:01

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This can occur when you add a razor page to an existing ASP.NET Project. Just remove the line and it will work fine again :)

answered Apr 16 '13 at 06:01

Dylan Slabbinck

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '13 at 15:47

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This line also caused my LoginUrl to fall back to it's original value "/Account/Login" instead of taking a value from FormsAuthentication settings.

(Just in case anyone has the same problem)

answered Jun 06 '13 at 15:47

To Ka

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web.config makes custom membership provider not work?

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