Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource ASP.NET 2.0 ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); )   ObjectDataSource’s are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other datastore for that matter). By binding the datasource to a databound server control like detailsview, you auto-magically get the insert behavior you are looking for. If however, you [...]

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This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to handle personalization information using the ASP.NET 2.0 custom provider facility. Then, it goes on to explains some fancy tricks you can do with this ObjectDataSource to make accessing membership even easier. Finally it presents a free tool available on the web that lets you cut and paste part of your web.config file into a web page and out comes a ready-to-compile C-Sharp ObjectDataSource.

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Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page

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This article gives an example of how to modify the Object DataSource in the previous article (Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS
Part 1: Security and Configuration Overview ) to return a ProviderUserKey which can then be used as a foreign key into the developer’s own data tables.

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