Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

This will all be linked heavily on MSDN starting tomorrow, but I got the ok to forward the already-live links tonight. :-)

In addition to 120+ pages of good word-content, almost all of the below sections also provide working C# sample implementations of the various provider types (usually going against an XML or text file for persistance). 

  • Introduction to the Provider Model
  • Membership Providers
  • Role Providers
  • Site Map Providers
  • Session State Providers
  • Profile Providers
  • Web Event Providers
  • Web Parts Personalization Providers
  • Custom Provider-Based Services
  • Hands-on Custom Providers: The Contoso Times

    • One of the things that has been nice to see on the ASP.NET 2.0 forums has been how developers using ASP.NET 2.0 have really-taken to the whole concept of providers, and are evangalizing the model of building custom ones for advanced scenarios.  I'm hoping that we'll shortly start to see the next wave of this soon -- where we'll see both commercial and open-source implementations start to appear of custom providers that others outside Microsoft build.

    The beauty of the provider model is that all of the higher-level features in ASP.NET 2.0 that build on top of them (Login Controls, WebParts, Treeview/Menu, Compilation, Profiles, Admin Tools, Heath Monitoring, Roles, etc, etc) will just work with these new custom implementations -- which should hopefully blend the best of productivity with advanced customization.

     

    Published Monday, October 17, 2005 6:19 PM by ScottGu

    Comments

    # re: Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

    Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:02 AM by Parag
    Dear Sir,

    I appreciate your idea with a detailed information offered with this article. But i am sorry to say that, i have no found a single page with the code explanation in VB.NET. As stated above i believed, i will find the code in both the ways, i mean C# and VB. But please provide a link to get the code in VB also.

    It will be useless for us, if we do not know c# in depth.

    Thanks

    # re: Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

    Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:48 AM by scottgu
    Hi Parag,

    Unfortunately I don't have an ETA yet for when it will be updated to include VB as well.

    Sorry about that,

    Scott

    # re: Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

    Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:10 PM by Harry Nath
    For those who are interested (such as Parag), there is a C# to VB.Net converter by Alex Lowe at
    http://authors.aspalliance.com/aldotnet/examples/translate.aspx

    Harry

    # re: Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

    Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:39 AM by Marc Scheuner
    Hi Scott,
    Why is the Profile stuff so nicely and easily extensible in the web.config, but the membership provider is not..... it would be SO NICE if I could just extend the basic MembershipUser class by a few custom fields of my own, by specifying those in the web.config file........

    It's a real pitty that the extensibility of the Profile provider model is not applied elsewhere.....

    Marc (mscheuner -at- mvps.org)

    # re: Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

    Thursday, December 28, 2006 7:04 AM by Francesco Meani

    Hi Scott,

    is there around a Profile Provider sample that uses a web services?

    # re: Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model

    Saturday, December 30, 2006 11:22 AM by ScottGu

    Hi Francesco,

    Unfortunately I don't know of a sample for how to build a profile provider using web-services. I do have an example of how to-do this for the Membership provider, though, which might help.  If you want to send me email directly I can send this sample to you as an attachment.

    Hope this helps,

    Scott