So you might be thinking that you want to use the Membership class and the ProfileBase class in Microsoft’s System.Web.Security and System.Web.Providers but then you also want to write unit tests as well so you decide to go stand in traffic instead once you are overcome by the plethora of static nonsense that is the design of these two classes. OK, so it isn’t that bad but it is frustrating however there are ways around it and I wanted to try and blog about some of those techniques in the hope that others won’t have to toil with as much frustration as I did when using these classes. Backgound Basically I wanted to find a clean simple way of making use of and extending Microsofts built in forms authentication. It’s easy to use, relatively secure and can save a lot of time and code, well sort of until you want to unit test. The ProfileBase class is great for extending profiles and adding custom properties so you don’t have to introduce a whole lot of redundant code. A good example of
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