Examining ASP.NET's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 1
There's one thing messageboard websites, eCommerce websites, social network websites, and portal websites share in common: they all provide user accounts. These websites, and many others, allow (or...
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In Part 1 of this article series we saw how ASP.NET's membership service provides a framework for managing user accounts. The framework is composed of a Membership class with a bevy of methods that can...
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The membership and roles providers used by ASP.NET by default are the SqlMembershipProvider and SqlRoleProvider, respectively, which serialize membership and roles information to a SQL Server...
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The ASP.NET Membership class provides a ValidateUser(userName, password) method that returns a Boolean value indicating whether or not a user's supplied credentials are valid. This method is...
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ASP.NET 2.0 makes it quite easy to accomplish common tasks. Want to display data from a database, allowing the user to sort, edit, delete, and page through that data? Simply add and configure a...
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The Membership API in the .NET Framework provides the concept of a user account and associates with it core properties: username, passsword, email, security question and answer, whether or not the...
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One of the main challenges of building a programming framework is balancing the desires to create a standardized, straightforward API for accomplishing common tasks and providing flexibility and...
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One of the main challenges of building a programming framework is balancing the desires to create a standardized, straightforward API for accomplishing common tasks and providing flexibility and...
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ASP.NET's Membership, Roles, and Profile systems were designed using the provider model, which enables these systems to seamlessly use different implementations. ASP.NET ships with a provider for...
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The Membership system automatically tracks the last date and time each user's account has been accessed. With the SqlMembershipProvider, this information is stored in the aspnet_Users database table...
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Many websites that support user account allow anyone to create a new account, but require new users to undergo some form of verification before their account is activated. A common approach is to send...
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Several of the earlier installments in this article series examined how to apply authorization rules in order to prohibit particular users, roles, or classes of users from accessing particular...
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ASP.NET's forms-based authentication system in tandem with the Membership API and Login Web controls make it a cinch to create a user store, create user accounts, and allow visitors to log into the...
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The ASP.NET Toolbox includes two Web controls for managing users' passwords: the ChangePassword control and the PasswordRecovery control. The ChangePassword control allows a user signed into the site...
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When a visitor registers a new account on an ASP.NET website that uses the Membership system, they are prompted (by default) for their username, password, e-mail address, and other pertinent...
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Expiring passwords are a common technique used for improving the security of a computer system. In a nutshell, the system specifies a number of days for which a given password is valid, be it 30 days,...
View ArticleExamining ASP.NET's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 17
Many of the web applications I help build can be classified as in-production line of business applications that receive frequent and ongoing feature enhancements. Typically, these applications have...
View ArticleExamining ASP.NET's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 18
Membership, in a nutshell, is a framework build into the .NET Framework that supports creating, authenticating, deleting, and modifying user account information. Each user account has a set of core...
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