This topic shows how to programmatically select the membership provider when you call the ASP.NET authentication service by using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). You can use a non-default membership provider when you have to authenticate users by using different membership providers, based o...

The XmlMembershipProvider let's you take advantage of the built in mechanisms for authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 only by adding a class to the App_Code folder and an XML file to the App_Data. No code required. This will save you many hours of work.