I have created a custom Oracle Membership provider, which you can download at www.dotnetfx.co.uk. Anyway's what I'm trying to do is to utilise the methods within the provider within other classes.  I have created a instance of the provider in my class as below.

Dim omp As MembershipProvider = New OracleMemberShipProvider()

This works ok, and I can view all the properties and methods within the designer as you would expect.  The problem is however that the provider does not seem to be initializing by using the method above, therefore the connection string properties etc are not being assigned with the web.config provider values. So when I call something from the provider such as:

Hello,

You can call the initialize method, however, typically to use a membership provider that you've configured, you simply access it like so:

When you call it this way, the initialization is done for you.  Hope that helps

FYI - This is assuming of course that you've imported System.Web.Security namespace.

Can you provide the code of your oracle membership provider? It does not look to me that you have a successfull implementation!

you may also want to look at the source code of some of the built-in providers:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442772.aspx

/Kadji

Hi all,

Thanks for your comments, you can download the exact code I'm using at www.dotnetfx.co.uk. The implementation works fine when using any of the native .NET controls, I'm just having trouble in the above scenario.

I'd appreciate it if someone could downlaod the code and give it a whirl to see where there may be a problem.

I have also imported System.Web.Security.

I seem to have found the solution, you have to cast your provider as System.Web.Security.MemberShip.Provider to invoke the initialization of your provider as below:

Dim omp As OracleMemberShipProvider = System.Web.Security.Membership.Provider

Excellent. Thanks for that - I was trying to achieve the same thing without any success.

Hi! I am using Oracle Providers for Membership and Roles and I have this weird problem.

using Oracle.Web.Security; 

OracleRoleProvider orp = new Oracle.Web.Security.OracleRoleProvider();

rolesGridView.DataSource = orp.GetAllRoles();

rolesGridView.DataBind();

Anyone who has tried this code work? I am getting an error of

System.InvalidOperationException: OracleConnection.ConnectionString is invalid

using System.Web.Security;

But when I use System.Web.Security.Roles.Provider.GetAllRoles(); or Roles.Provider.GetAllRoles();  -the gridView  will work. I don't know why it won't work with Oracle Provider.