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:

publicclass ProfiledSqlDataSource : SqlDataSource
{protectedoverride DbProviderFactory  GetDbProviderFactory()
    {// get the "base" DbProviderFactory
        var baseDbProviderFactory = base.GetDbProviderFactory();// Return a ProfiledDbProviderFactory from MiniProfiler// that wraps the "base" DbProviderFactoryreturnnew ProfiledDbProviderFactory(
            MiniProfiler.Current,
            baseDbProviderFactory
        );
    }
}