asp.net mvc editing Membership User data

Question

What is the best approach to allow a user to change his email address?

im using the built in membership provider and AccountController. in asp.net mvc 3

My app is using Entity Framework but im not sure if its correct to add that membershipUser to the edmx and create a UsersController to do this... or add an action to accountController that handles this.

Please help

Answer 1

The membership provider has the ability to help you manage that. You would most likely add the ability into your AccountController to do this. I wouldn't add it into your EF classes. It is handled outside of your database anyway (unless you've written a custom MembershipProvider to talk to tables inside your database).

Take a look at this question too as it addresses some of what you may want to do and it includes source code.