I just want to help anyone who is going through what I have gone through to find an alternative the default ASP.net providers.
I am developing a website with a MySQL database and wanted to take advantage of the asp.net membership and role providers so I wouldn't have to code all my login/logout code and be able to use the all the login controls(loginstatus, loginview, etc.) that make creating a membership based site easier to do.
So basically I found a MySQL alternative for Membership and roles found here:
http://sprinj.com/ideas/view/5-a-mysql-membership-and-role-provider-for-aspnet-20
It is very straightforward, you simply have to create some MySQL tables, modify your web.config and you're set
I didn't find a MySQL profile provider that worked for me(I found: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/ASPNet_20.asp but I couldn't get it to work, maybe you can).
But I did find the next best thing, at TextFileProfileProvider that store ...
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