Using MiniProfiler with SqlDataSource ASP.NET WebForms Control
I recently implemented MiniProfiler into an existing ASP.NET WebForms application that makes use of databinding to the SqlDataSource control. Since the SqlDataSource uses a DbProviderFactory internally, it is fairly simple to exend the control to utilize MiniProfiler through inheritance and overriding a single method of the SqlDataSource.
Here’s a very simple class that inherits from the SqlDataSource control and injects MiniProfiler support to be able to profile the SQL query used by the control: <pre class="csharpcode">public class ProfiledSqlDataSource : SqlDataSource
{
protected override DbProviderFactory GetDbProviderFactory()
{
// get the "base" DbProviderFactory
var baseDbProviderFactory = base.GetDbProviderFactory();
// Return a ProfiledDbProviderFactory from MiniProfiler
// that wraps the "base" DbProviderFactory
return new ProfiledDbProviderFactory(
MiniProfiler.Current,
baseDbProviderFactory
);
}
}</pre>