Get specific membership provider

Question

Is there a way to obtain a specific membership provider?

When you make calls to the static Membership methods they query whatever provider you have configured as the defaultProvider. Is it possible to get a reference to a specific provider that is configured in your web.config and query against only that provider?

Answer 1

Yes, if you have multiple providers configured in your web.config, you can look them up by name.

MembershipProvider membershipProvider = Membership.Providers["foo"];