Why membership provider is not generic?

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Published on 2010-04-10T22:04:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 22:13 UTC
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I have to confess that I hate membership provider. The default implementation is not very appropriate normally and I haven't seen so far a good implementation of a custom membership provider, probably because this is not possible :-)

So the question is:

In your opinion: which are the reasons for not having membership/role provider as a generic class? I mean, why Microsoft didn't selected this approach.

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