Writing A Custom Membership Provider for your ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site

(Wei-Meng Lee) One feature introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 is the use of the "provider model" to provide maximum flexibility and extensibility to your Web applications. Using the provider model, developers can easily extend the capabilities provided by the ASP.NET 2.0 runtime, in many different ways. For example, you can extend the provider model to store the membership information for your Web site users in a custom data store, rather than the default SQL Server Express 2005 database.