Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API Extended
Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 shipped with a complete membership API that allows developers to manage the application’s users and their roles. However, this API best suits small to medium Web sites due to their limitation in expressing a detailed member record.
This article discusses one of the techniques that you can use to overcome this limitation and extend the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API to accommodate custom member records with a solution that works on top of the Membership API without requiring any change in the API.