how to create custom membership provider with xml

[khalid Ahmed]

Hi,
I need to create a simple custom membership provider that store membership information in an xml file, to manage the users login.
how to implement this.
can anyone help me or give me an example.

I'm new to ASP.NET hope help me...
thanks!

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Im not sure if you can keep a xml file and define it directly for roles.

Definitely, if you create a class which can deserialise the xml file, and your custom role provider class can use this object to authenticate for role members.