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:

• 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.