ASP.NET 2.0: XML Membership Provider (WebProNews)
ASP.NET 2.0: XML Membership Provider (WebProNews)
ASP.NET ships with a SqlMembershipProvider and a ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that makes user authentication and authorization very easy to implement, but for some reason those are the only membership providers provided natively by ASP.NET 2.0. So, what do you do when you don’t want or can’t use SQL Server or Active Directory for memberships? You have to build a custom membership provider