What does Provider mean in asp.net ?

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Published on 2010-03-24T10:04:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 10:13 UTC
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Hi
I've got confused . We hear a lot about Provider in ASP.NET . Membership-Provider , Role Provider , XmlDataProvider ,CustomProvider, ....
What are those and why we need them in ASP.NET ?

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