ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 20. Managing Your Site's Users In this hour, we will cover How to configure a website to support user accountsHow and where user account information is storedCreating and managing user accounts and roles through the ASP.NET Website Adminis...

An Overview of User Accounts in ASP.NET When you make a purchase from an online retailer for the first time, you are prompted to create a user account. When creating a user account, you are prompted to enter information that uniquely identifies yo...

Allowing Visitors to Create New User Accounts Although you can create user accounts through the ASP.NET Website Administration Tool, chances are you'll want to also allow users to create accounts on their own. This process can be handled by ASP.NE...

Logging In to the Website with the Login Control Any site that supports user accounts must include some means for the users to log in to the site. This is typically done through a login page. In the login page, the user is queried for his credenti...

Displaying Content Based on Authentication Status Often we want to display different content based on whether the user is logged on. If the visitor is not logged on to the site, we might want to display the Login control; however, if the user has ...

Recovering a User's Forgotten Password With the plethora of user accounts most people have these days, remembering all your different passwords can be difficult. To help those who have forgotten their password, sites that support user accounts typ...

Summary Building a website that supports user accounts is trivial with ASP.NET, thanks to ASP.NET's built-in user account support and login Web controls. When we configure the ASP.NET website to use forms-based authentication, the ASP.NET Website ...

Q&A Q1:I like how ASP.NET provides inherent user account support, but it seems to make a lot of assumptions for me. For example, passwords are stored as hashed digests, the user's password must be seven characters long and include nonalphanume...

Workshop Quiz 1.What is authentication? How is authentication performed with forms-based authentication? 2.What three pieces of information do you need to provide when specifying an access right? 3.Imagine that on a web page you wanted to sho...