Examining ASP. NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile
-Part 1 to Part 8
By
Scott Mitchell
| A Multipart Series on ASP. NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile |
This article is one in a series of articles on ASP. NET 2.0's membership, roles, and profile functionality.Part 1-learn about how the membership features make providing user accounts on your website a breeze. This article covers the basics of membership, including why it is needed, along with a look theSqlMembershipProviderAnd the security Web controls.Part 2-master how to create roles and assign users to roles. this article shows how to setup roles, using role-based authorization, and displaying output on a page depending upon the visitor's roles.Part 3-see how to add the membership-related schemas to an existing database using the ASP. net SQL Server Registration Tool (aspnet_regsql.exe).Part 4-improve the login experience by showing more informative messages for users who log on with invalid credentials; also, see how to keep a log of invalid login attempts.Part 5-learn how to customize the Login control. Adjust its appearance using properties and templates; customize the authentication logic to include a CAPTCHA.Part 6-capture additional user-specific information using the Profile system. Learn about the built-inSqlProfileProvider.Part 7-the Membership, Roles, and Profile systems are all build using the provider model, which allows for their implementations to be highly customized. learn how to create a custom Profile provider that persists user-specific settings to XML files.Part 8-learn how to use the Microsoft Access-based providers for the Membership, Roles, and Profile systems. With these providers, you can use an Access database instead of SQL Server.(Subscribe to this Article Series! |
A Look at ASP. NET 2.0's Provider Model
Scott Guthrie's Always set the "applicationName" property when processing ing ASP. NET 2.0 Membership and other Providers
Customizing the CreateUserWizard Control
ASP. NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources
Use VS2005 to expand membership services
