Question

Regarding the ASP.NET Universal Providers (System.Web.Providers), do they automatically offer the retry logic when used with SQL Azure? For example in my code I call:

Membership.CreateUser

If that fails because of a Azure’s transient error, does the library automatically handle the situation and retry the operation? Or should I manually handle the exception + do the retry?

The following question implies that the reply logic is built-in, but is there a place where I could confirm this, like some home page of these providers or the source code?

Answer 1

I don’t see anywhere it retries again after fail. DefaultMembershipProvider uses simple entity framework AddObject, unless you implement CustomMembershipProvider.

internal static User CreateUser(MembershipEntities ctx, Guid id, 
   string userName, Guid appId, bool isAnon)
{
   User user = new User();
   user.UserId = id;
   user.ApplicationId = appId;
   user.LastActivityDate = DateTime.UtcNow;
   user.UserName = userName;
   user.IsAnonymous = isAnon;
   ctx.Users.AddObject(user);
   User user1 = user;
   return user1;
}