Reading membership section from web.config

Question

I have created a custom MembershipProvider class, so far so good, however, I am not sure how to read the configuration settings from the web.config file.

I tried to

Answer 1

here is the solution in code :

        MembershipSection membershipSection = (MembershipSection)WebConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.web/membership");
        string defaultProvider = membershipSection.DefaultProvider;
        ProviderSettings providerSettings = membershipSection.Providers[defaultProvider];
        string connectionStringName = providerSettings.Parameters["connectionStringName"];
        string connectionUsername = providerSettings.Parameters["connectionUsername"];
        string connectionPassword = providerSettings.Parameters["connectionPassword"];
        string connectionString = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connectionStringName].ConnectionString;