Active Directory and changing passwords through ASP.NET

When using an ASP.NET-application to change have a user change his/her password, Password Complexity can act up. Or better said… ASP.NET apparently doesn’t look at the settings set in Active Directory :-/

While looking for a solution, I ran into this (series of) article(s)….

My solution: write a custom MembershipProvider, derived from the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider. That way I don’t have to actually plug things in the standard-controls, just provide a custom membership-provider…