Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page. The source file for this can be downloaded at (Download New File). Below is a screen shot of this new look.
Figure 1 – Updated Design for Membership.aspx By Mikhail Lukyanau
I was recently asked how to use the Membership Data Object to return the unique ProviderKey generated by the Membership object. This may be necessary if want to associate the membership data with an existing table. That is, add a foreign key "ProviderUserKey" to another table so you can track an existing user to your current database without getting involved in extending the base provider. You can of course extend the existing provider to include other fields, but in general, you probably are better off maintaining your own tables rather than extending the provider model. Peter Dawson does an excellent job of explaining and showing how to extend the Membership Provider in his article Creating a Custom ASP.NET Provider. (published on theserverside.net)
