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    copied!<p>first off, I know that this question could be borderline-duplicate <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683/">to this one</a>, and yes, it is a bit ironic that I am asking a question for something that I even answered myself.</p> <p>Now, I am talking about ASP.net Profiles. I am building an application using MVC if that matters, and I believe that the built-in Profile Provider is useless.</p> <p>So at the moment, I am asking myself: Should I follow my own advice and write a Custom Profile Provider, or should I completely roll my own Profile stuff?</p> <p>Some assumptions:</p> <ul> <li>I want my data in a database structure that I decide</li> <li>It's a brand new application, no legacy database structure or userbase that needs to be integrated</li> <li>Small to Mid-Sized amount of users (max. ~5000 users)</li> <li>ASP.net MVC, most likely Silverlight 2 and maybe even some Windows Azure, but I am still experimenting with it, but definitely .net 3.5 SP1.</li> <li>And, possibly as the main decision point: Not neccessarily using Forms Auth, the application may eventually use Active Directory or OpenID for Authentication</li> </ul> <p>I still need to investigate if I can use ASP.net Membership with non-standard authentication providers (OpenID), because I think that ASP.net Profiles only make sense when I use ASP.net Membership, so I might eventually end up writing both a custom Membership Provider for OpenID (That essentially just serves as a bridge), and a custom Profile Provider.</p> <p>So yeah, I think that that might be a good way because I continue to use what the framework already gives me, but I have next to no experience with Membership and Profiles, so maybe someone here has some insight whether or not I should completely roll my own Authentication and/or Profiles, or if I am better off writing custom Membership and Profile Providers, which apparently is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/264272/">what SO did</a>?</p>
 

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