Do most people use .NET's SqlMembershipProvider, SqlRoleProvider, and SqlProfileProvider?

Question

Do most people use .NET\'s SqlMembershipProvider, SqlRoleProvider, and SqlProfileProvider when developing a site with membership capabilities?

Or do many people make the

Answer 1

We use everything except the Profile Provider. The Profile Provider is completly text based and does full text seearches - this becomes exceedingly slow as you user base gets larger. We have found it a much better solution to "role our own" profile section of the membership api database that is keyed to the userid in membership.