Using multiple membership providers within ASP.Net MVC 3 application

Question

I am adding a new area to an existing mvc 3 razor app as an admin area for managing some settings and content. The rest of the site is currently secured by a custom provider

Answer 1

There is actually very little headache involved.

Simply add all the MembershipProviders you want in web.config:

As you can see I have added two providers. I have also specified a default provider.

I can then switch between the two like this:

var membershipProvider1 = Membership.Providers["MembershipProvider1"];
membershipProvider1.ValidateUser("Mike", "banana");

var membershipProvider2 = Membership.Providers["MembershipProvider2"];
membershipProvider2.ValidateUser("Mike", "orange");

You probably want to wrap that into an application service or something, but you get the idea. Not so much headache, right?