A number of interesting articles have been released on MSDN regarding the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider model. This is very important reading material for everyone who wants to get serious about doing work with SharePoint vNext since the foundation of that version will all be about ASP.NET 2.0.

So, study the providers since it will allow you to do very interesting stuff like adding your own authentication mechanism for SharePoint.

  1. Introduction to the Provider Model
  2. Membership Providers
  3. Role Providers
  4. Site Map Providers
  5. Session State Providers
  6. Profile Providers
  7. Web Event Providers
  8. Web Parts Personalization Providers
  9. Custom Provider-Based Services
  10. Hands-on Custom Providers: The Contoso Times