I spent several weeks this summer writing an ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit under contract for Microsoft. The centerpiece of the toolkit is a 120-page whitepaper documenting the provider model and offering lots of samples. It’s now online (in 10 parts) on MSDN at the following locations:
- 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
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p class=”MsoNormal”>In a couple of weeks, I begin writing phase 2 of the whitepaper, in which I’ll document–source code and all–most of the built-in providers that ship with ASP.NET 2.0.