The new way that Microsoft is doing things is.
they create and use an abstract class in the code, for their controls.
They ship with the framework, a class that implements the abstract class.
This way it works "out of the box".
Realizing that it won't satify all/many customer needs, you have the ability
to create your own class ( inheriting the abstract class Microsoft
provides ) and then write your own code to handle the abstract methods.
(mustinherit I think in vb.net)
Then, you override the class which ships with dotnet, in the .config file.
Its not trivial to create your own. it takes some work.
Depending on the project, you can either learn how to use it "out of the
box", or use the previously provided links to find some other people who
have create their own version.
But nothing is free. You either can tackle the setup and learning curve of
using the code "out of the box", or you can write/"borrow" other code to
replace the out of the box code.
"00_DotNetWarrior" <00**************@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I am using .NET 2.0 Security to do login/password management, but in the
ASP.NET web site administration page, it forces me to use
"AspNetSqlProvider" as provider.
Is it possible to change it to something else? like a plain XML file?
without using SQL Database? Since our application is extremely
lightwighted, we don't really need a database. Also, we don't want our
client to install SQL Express or to use SQL server.
Thanks..