What is the benefit of using Membership Class in .Net?

Question

Hello I would like to know what's the benefit to use Membership Class (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.membership.aspx) while developing with c# or vb.net ? Is there any limitation ? Is there any advantage for me if i build my own Class for authentication membership users & roles ? thank you Paul

Akkiraju Ivaturi · Answer

The main advantage of writing your own MembershipProvider class is that it's considered by the ASP.NET as a first-class component and you can use the standard interfaces for authentication and authorization and only have to change the config file afterwards if you want to use a different provider. Also since it is part of .NET framework it supports easy integration in your project and you should be able to customize any of the events.