can i change membership provider GetAllUsers method?

Question

Hi i am using vb.net and the .net membership provider.

i want to bring back a gridview with user account information, like GetAllUsers() does. However i want to only bring back users with certain profile information, that will be users whos profile information matches the selected value in a dropdownlist on the same page. I am using profile provider to record just one extra piece of user information.

Can i change or override the GetAllUsers method for this? Adding an extra parameter so its GetAllUsers by Profile. Membership has a FindUsersByName method, i want to do something similar with users by Profile.

I am very much a noob with .net programming so i hope i have explained this ok.

Answer 1

Create a new membership provider class that inherits from System.Web.Security.MembershipProvider

This will give you a GetAllUsers method to override.

Add a membership section to web.config to reference your new membership provider.

<membership defaultProvider="MyMembershipProvider">
    <providers>
        <add name="MyMembershipProvider" type="MyNamespace.MyMembershipProvider"/>
    </providers>
</membership>

That's it.

However, I would add a new method instead, along the following lines:

GetUsersByCriteria(criteria as String)