ASP.NET WSAT (Website Administration Tool) and Custom Membership Providers

Question

I'm building an ASP.NET MVC applicaiton that will have custom role and membership providers. I have been looking into adminstration tools to save us some time, WSAT has crossed my path. It looks good at a glance, it's all open source and very simple if it doesn't work I can fix it myself.

First question is have any of you used WSAT for a product system in the past. Is it worth while, should I consider it and what reasons are there for not using it?

Second question, does anyone know how well WSAT works with custom providers?

Thanks for your feedback.

Answer 1

MVC WSAT appears to be the tool of choice for providing Web site Administration functionality to ASP.NET MVC web sites.

Also, although the ASPNetWSAT tool is no longer available on Codeplex, it is still available in places. See this thread: ASP.Net WSAT (Web Site Administration) Starter Kit. What happened? and check the last post!

To address your specific question, the MyWSAT tool is fairly well written and robust, and has been used by quite a few people within their own websites (many people were quite upset when it was removed from Codeplex!). Short of writing your own website administration tool, or paying for a commercial component, it's about the best out there.

The MVC WSAT tool is a rewrite of the original MyWSAT tool, made specifically for ASP.NET MVC-developed websites, and MVC WSAT should be used instead of MyWSAT for MVC sites.

EDIT:
Since approximately April of 2010, the MyWSAT project has been made available again by the original author on Codeplex!

Get it here: http://mywsat.codeplex.com/