Now Available: The ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Whitepaper

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:

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.

On Oct 17 2005 9:53 PMBy jprosise
With 7 Comments Jeff Prosise

Comments (7)

  1. Joel Lyons

    The links above don't seem to work any more. Any idea where we can find the white paper?

  3. matt vaughn

    The [Provider Model] another great feature of ASP.Net. Great job on the whitepaper. I'm building a custom provider for menu and navigation for my site. Great explanation on the "gotchas" and sections in the web.config. I was able to create a "sanity check" service provider in a few hours.

  4. Joshua Flanagan

    Jeff - I recently created a Visual Studio template file for RoleProviders, based on this white paper: http://flimflan.com/blog/ASPNETRoleProviderVisualStudioTemplate.aspx I would really appreciate your feedback, and would be glad to accomodate any requests you may have regarding the content or acknowledgements. I definitely want it to be clear that I am not the author of the guidance, I just put it into a form that was easier for me to consume. You did a great job on the paper, and I don't want to take any of the credit.

  5. Manish Gorkar

    I am trying to use a custom provider. I created a class library that has my custom provider. It is similar to the custom provider in chapter 8. I have another web application that needs to use the custom provider. I have configured the web applications web.config to use the custom provider. How would I know if the custom provider was loaded via the web.config? I tried to setup break points everywhere in class library and check this. The break point never get hit. How do I get the custom provider functionality in the web application. I would appreciate if somebody help me in this. Thanks a ton. Manish

  6. k

    The links do not seem to work any more. Is there a new location for those whitepapers.
    Thanks
    k

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