MembershipProviderCollection Class

Definition

A collection of objects that inherit the MembershipProvider abstract class.

public ref class MembershipProviderCollection sealed : System::Configuration::Provider::ProviderCollection
public sealed class MembershipProviderCollection : System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderCollection
type MembershipProviderCollection = class
    inherit ProviderCollection
Public NotInheritable Class MembershipProviderCollection
Inherits ProviderCollection
Inheritance
MembershipProviderCollection

Examples

The following code example lists the providers enabled for an application and their respective types.

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Configuration.Provider" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>List Enabled Providers</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
foreach (ProviderBase p in Membership.Providers)
  Response.Write(p.Name + ", " + p.GetType() + "<br />");
%>

</body>
</html>
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Configuration.Provider" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>List Enabled Providers</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
For Each p As ProviderBase In Membership.Providers
  Response.Write(p.Name & ", " & p.GetType().ToString() & "<br />")
Next
%>

</body>
</html>

Remarks

The membership providers for an application are exposed as a read-only MembershipProviderCollection by the Providers property of the Membership class. You can access a specific membership provider in the collection by name and cast it as the specific provider type, such as SqlMembershipProvider. This enables you to manage membership information from multiple data stores in a single application as well as access custom members of a membership provider that are not part of the MembershipProvider abstract class.

Note

If you are not familiar with the membership features of ASP.NET, see Introduction to Membership before continuing. For a list of other topics related to membership, see Managing Users by Using Membership.

Constructors

MembershipProviderCollection()

Creates a new, empty membership provider collection.

Properties

Count

Gets the number of providers in the collection.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
IsSynchronized

Gets a value indicating whether access to the collection is synchronized (thread safe).

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
Item[String]

Gets the membership provider in the collection referenced by the specified provider name.

SyncRoot

Gets the current object.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)

Methods

Add(ProviderBase)

Adds a membership provider to the collection.

Clear()

Removes all items from the collection.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
CopyTo(MembershipProvider[], Int32)

Copies the membership provider collection to a one-dimensional array.

CopyTo(ProviderBase[], Int32)

Copies the contents of the collection to the given array starting at the specified index.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
Equals(Object)

Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.

(Inherited from Object)
GetEnumerator()

Returns an object that implements the IEnumerator interface to iterate through the collection.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
GetHashCode()

Serves as the default hash function.

(Inherited from Object)
GetType()

Gets the Type of the current instance.

(Inherited from Object)
MemberwiseClone()

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

(Inherited from Object)
Remove(String)

Removes a provider from the collection.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
SetReadOnly()

Sets the collection to be read-only.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)
ToString()

Returns a string that represents the current object.

(Inherited from Object)

Explicit Interface Implementations

ICollection.CopyTo(Array, Int32)

Copies the elements of the ProviderCollection to an array, starting at a particular array index.

(Inherited from ProviderCollection)

Extension Methods

Cast<TResult>(IEnumerable)

Casts the elements of an IEnumerable to the specified type.

OfType<TResult>(IEnumerable)

Filters the elements of an IEnumerable based on a specified type.

AsParallel(IEnumerable)

Enables parallelization of a query.

AsQueryable(IEnumerable)

Converts an IEnumerable to an IQueryable.

Applies to

See also