Sitefinity 4.0 Beta 2 custom membership provider

Hi,

  <telerik>
    <security defaultProvider="DefaultSecurityProvider" cmsProvidersName="DefaultSecurityProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="DefaultSecurityProvider"
             connectionStringName="Blah"
             type="Blah.class, BlahAssembly"
             membershipProvider="BlahProvider"
             roleProvider="Sitefinity"/>
      </providers>
    </security>
  </telerik>

Is this still supported/honored? Should I do this differently?

FYI, I have setup my custom provider in the system.web -> membership section of web config and I have registered my providers in securityconfig.config file.

What am I missing?

I would highly appreciate a quick response.

Thanks,

Mehdi

Sorry for the typo. It should read:

Hello Mehdi,

We have MembershipProviderWrapper which is still not completed. The idea of MembershipProviderWrapper is to wrap standard ASP.NET provider to allow Sitefinity to work with third party membership providers that were not specifically designed for Sitefinity. This class is internal and you cannot use it directly but Sitefinity will automatically wrap all membership providers that are declared in web.config and they will become available in Sitefinity.

Currently the only way you have is creating a custom provider that inherits from MembershipDataProvider and implement it the Sitefinity way.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Thanks a lot for the response Ivan.

Hi Mehdi,

Please refer the to attached screenshot that illustrates the section you should work with. Restart the application after you have added the provider. If it does not appear, then its type is not correct.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Wow, I am quite impressed with the speed of response. Thanks.

Hi Mehdi,

"Currently the only way you have is creating a custom provider that inherits from MembershipDataProvider" and implement it the Sitefinity way.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Thanks for the response Ivan.

Hello Mehdi,

I believe that we will finish the wrappers for the official release that we will have in January -2011

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan,

I'm using the release version and it seems not to be implemented.  Please can yo advise if this is the case (or am I just not doing it right!).

If not, when is it expected to be available please.

Thanks

Ian

Hi Mehdi,

The wrappers are not implemented and I am sorry to say that. I will update the post with some more information when we schedule the implementation.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi

I'm looking at how to implement a provider inheriting MembershipDataProvider to manage a standard ASP.Net SQL Server Membership/Role provider 

The abstract class requires overrides for Create User, Delete, GetUser and GetUsers.  I'm probably being thick - but what do I need to do to handle login and logout?

Thanks

Ian

Hello,

We will have this out of the box with the Q1 release.

Hi everyone, 
May be if it is possible to add and existing website (or a web application to a Sitefinity project) (I don't know if it is possible)
In case it is, may be one could use a custom provider in the website and use Sitefinity with its own provider. 
But before we make sure, to have the capability to add an existing solution to Sitefinity project.
So far, I haven't seen it, the only way to add an existing work is via the use of user control or custom control.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I am here to learn :)

Hello xheo,

Sitefinity is entirely build on the provider model. We are not restricting you to add custom projects to the Sitefinity project as well. Could you please elaborate on your scenario, so we may guide you?

Hi,

Regarding Georgi's comment above that mentions that a number of wrappers/features are being scheduled for Q1 to simplify custom membership provider implementation, are these still scheduled for Q1 and have they been added to any of the internal builds?
And if yes, where can we get more information regarding the interfaces to be implemented and the required configuration settings.

Thanks.

Hello AmrElsayed,

We are ready with the membership wrappers API and we will also have custom profiles implementation which is also missing in the 4.0 SP1. All new features will be released with Q1. In the service pack 1 we included only bug fixes.

All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hello Ivan,

We upgraded our website to Sitefinity 4.1
can you tell me please how can we use the "MembershipProviderWrapper " to extend the existing membership provider?

Thanks.

Hello AmrElsayed,

If you have an existing ASP.NET Membership provider you have to declare it in the web.config

<membership>
                    <providers>
                          <clear />
                             <add connectionStringName="SqlMembership" enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
                                       enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
                                       requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6"
                                       minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10"
                                       applicationName="/" name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" />
                                </providers>
</membership>


Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team