ASP.NET ships with several controls you can use in your ASP.NET pages that simplify the process of creating login pages. These controls rely on the underlying forms authentication and the membership API infrastructure. The next table describes security controls that ship with ASP.NET and summarizes their typical usage scenarios:
Control
Primary usage
Login
The …
How to create and authenticate users as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET in VB.NET
You can create new users in your membership provider store, by launching the WAT. You have to select the Website->ASP.NET Web Configuration menu from within Visual Studio. Now you have to switch to the Security tab and select Create User, as shown in the next picture:
Creating users with the WAT in VB.NET
After you have created a …
How to create and authenticate users as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET in C#
You can create new users in your membership provider store, by launching the WAT. You have to select the Website->ASP.NET Web Configuration menu from within Visual Studio. Now you have to switch to the Security tab and select Create User, as shown in the next picture:
Creating users with the WAT in C#
After you have created a …
How to configure connection string and membership provider as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET
You need to configure connection string and membership provider when you want to use SQL Server database or even your custom provider. In these cases, you have to modify web.config file directly or edit the configuration through the IIS MMC snap-in if you are running your application on IIS.
In case of using SQL Server storage (or other database-based …
You can use the aspnet_regsql.exe tool to execute a couple of scripts for creating (or dropping) the membership related database and database tables. These scripts ship with the .NET Framework and you can find them in the .NET Framework directory, as shown in the next picture:
The SQL scripts for installing and uninstalling SQL databases
Two types of …
You can find Aspnet_regsql.exe in the Microsoft.NET Framework directory. If the computer is running multiple .NET Framework versions side-by-side, multiple versions of the tool might be installed. The next table lists the locations where the tool is installed for different versions of the .NET Framework.
Version of .NET Framework
Location of Aspnet_regsql.exe file
.NET Framework version 2.0/3.0/3.5 (32-bit systems)
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
.NET Framework …
How to create a data store as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET
When you are planning to implement membership API in production environment, you should create membership database manually. ASP.NET ships with SQL scripts that allow you to manually create the necessary database and database tables required for storing user and role information used by the membership API. ASP.NET also ships with a tool that creates these database …
How to configure Forms Authentication as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET
The membership API is based on top of forms authentication. It provides you with an out-of-the-box infrastructure for managing and authenticating users. For that reason, you have to configure your application for forms authentication as a first step. Usually, the the root directory of the web application grants access to anonymous users, while restricted resources are …
If you are planning to use the ASP.NET membership API and the security controls of APS.NET, you have to complete the next steps:
1. Configure forms authentication in your web.config file, and deny access to anonymous users.
2. Set up the membership …
The membership API is designed to work completely independently from its underlying data store.You can work with the controls provided by ASP.NET as well as the Membership class. The Membership class provides you with a set of static methods and static properties for programmatically accessing users and roles of the store. These methods work with a …