Extending Active Directory Membership Provider
See the question and my original answer on StackOverflowI suppose you could do this overriding the MembershipUser returned by the Active Directory provider, something like this:
public class MyActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider : ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider
{
public override MembershipUser GetUser(object providerUserKey, bool userIsOnline)
{
ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser user = (ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser)base.GetUser(providerUserKey, userIsOnline);
if (user == null)
return null;
return new MyActiveDirectoryMembershipUser(user);
}
public override MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByName(string usernameToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords)
{
MembershipUserCollection newColl = new MembershipUserCollection();
foreach (ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser user in base.FindUsersByName(usernameToMatch, pageIndex, pageSize, out totalRecords))
{
newColl.Add(new MyActiveDirectoryMembershipUser(user));
}
return newColl;
}
// TODO: check other methods to override
}
public class MyActiveDirectoryMembershipUser : ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser
{
private string _userName;
public override string UserName
{
get
{
return _userName;
}
}
public MyActiveDirectoryMembershipUser(ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser user)
{
// TODO: do your decoding stuff here
_userName = MyDecode(user.Email);
}
}
NOTE: you will need to ensure all methods that return a user are overriden. It also has a some performance impact on collection methods, because you'll need to duplicate the collection (as I have shown in the sample).