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title: "asp.net membership config specification"  
description: "asp.net membership config specification"  
author: "Mark Devid"  
published: 2014-08-22  
updated: 2014-08-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2087/asp-dot-net-membership-config-specification  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# asp.net membership config specification

I'm looking at the [ado.net](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/804/connection-pooling-in-ado-dot-net) ef [membership](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2228/in-which-database-is-the-information-such-as-membership-role-management-profile-and-web-parts-personalization-stored) [provider](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92701/who-is-the-best-telecom-solution-provider) and [notice](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4562/happy-independence-day-2024-things-to-notice) they have something a little different to [register](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/220/registering-client-script-in-asp-dot-net) the provider

```
type="OmidID.Web.Security.EFMembershipProvider`2[                    [OmidID.Web.Security.Default.DefaultUser,                         OmidID.Web.Security.EFMembershipProvider],                    [System.Int64]], OmidID.Web.Security.EFMembershipProvider"
```

I've [never seen](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36806/what-are-some-rare-pictures-that-we-have-never-seen) the bits in square brackets before and took a look around and can't seem to find what they allude to, I'm guessing its setting the type of [user](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13001/multi-statement-table-valued-user-defined-function-in-sql-server) but I'm not sure.

Is this [configuration](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13112/setting-up-the-perfect-configuration-for-your-work-computer) specified somewhere? what does it [mean](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80768/what-does-real-minority-mean)?

## Replies

### Reply by Sumit Kesarwani

The type is Generic, the square brackets indicate what types the generic type should be used with. In this case the EFMembershipProvider class has 2 generic parameters that should have the types OmidID.Web.Security.Default.DefaultUser in the Assembly OmidID.Web.Security.EFMembershipProvider and System.Int64. The EFMembershipProvider class itself is in the Assembly OmidID.Web.Security.EFMembershipProvider.


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