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General rules for when to use which types of memberships in MVC

Already I have known 3 types of memberships in Microsoft MVC. They are:

  1. membershipprovider
  2. extendedmembershipprovider
  3. simplemembershipprovider

Obviously they have differences to use. What is the key advantage for selecting each of them? May somebody describe?

Thanks.

Solution

  • The following post from Jon Galloway goes into great detail explaining what I think it is you are asking.

    The article includes a class diagram that shows the relationship between all three classes that you have listed.

    The relevant take-away quote is this one:

    SimpleMembershipProvider is an implementaiton of an ExtendedMembershipProvider, which inherits from MembershipProvider and adds some other account / OAuth related things.

    Be sure to look at the class diagram, it is in the section called How SimpleMembership integrates with ASP.NET Membership

    Hope that helps.