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I am developing an application in Umbraco where I need to get my members from an external already existing database. I have succeeded in making a custom membership provider which I use to validate users.
What I would like to do now is to get the list of members in the external database to be visible in the members area in the backoffice. Is this possible and if so any ideas on how to accomplish it?
Unfortunately no.
To achieve this you must build a custom member application for Umbraco.
== Edit on request ==
The member gui is explicitly built to handle Umbraco Member Objects, these object can be extended with properties of the same data types as all objects in Umbraco. This gui won’t simply work with a regular asp.net membership provider since they are not compatible.
To best match this you should extend the umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider class instead of the ordinary asp.net membership provider.
Now, you can make calls from the UmbracoMembershipProvider to any asp.net membership provider but this is a discussion of architecture and philosophy 🙂