Snitz Membership Provider

ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Role Providers which use a Snitz Forums (http://www.snitz.com/) database as the backing
store.This allows a website currently using Snitz forums, to leverage theexisting membership database when added new features
to the website.

Snitz Forums 2000 (http://forum.snitz.com/is a free web-site forum package written in Classic ASP, which usesit's own proprietary schema for member authentication andauthorization. It is not directly compatible which the database schemaused by the standard membership providers that come with ASP.Net v2.0.To build features onto the site which use ASP.Net's integratedMembership API, a webmaster is given the choice of

  • Dumping the membership list (requiring all users to register again)
  • Manuallytransforming the data from one schema to the other (but since they usedifferent one-way hashs for storing passwords, all users would have tobe assigned new passwords)
  • (Both of the above would alsorequire replacing Snitz forums with a different forum applicationleading to a similar dilemma of dumping or converting the existingmessages.)
  • Alternately, a Snitz membership provider allowscontinuing the use the same forum software, with a message history andmembership accounts (and passwords) remaining in place, while stillusing the Membership APIs in other areas of the website.

Go to http://www.codeplex.com/SnitzMember

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