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All you need to know about Membership Presented by: Patrick Hynds President, CriticalSites Microsoft Regional Director Agenda Membership Provider Model Custom Providers Discussion of SOA based membership example Shortcuts to building a custom provider (Demo) Membership Service Membership API Included Membership providers SQL Server (and SQL Express) Active Directory (Windows) Access (kind of…) Installs as a Visual Studio 2005 VSI template Custom Membership providers Oracle MySQL SQLLite3 Whatever you write yourself… Membership Service Service for managing users and credentials Declarative access via Web Site Admin Tool Programmatic access via Membership and MembershipUser classes Membership class provides base services MembershipUser class represents users and provides additional services Provider-based for flexible data storage Membership Service (cont.) Vastly simplifies forms authentication Provides logic for validating user names and passwords, creating accounts, and more Provides data store for storing credentials, e-mail addresses, and other membership data Membership Schema LoginView The Membership Class Provides static methods for performing key membership tasks Creating and deleting users Retrieving information about users Generating random passwords Validating logins Also includes read-only static properties for acquiring data about provider settings The MembershipUser Class Represents individual users registered in the membership data store Includes numerous properties for getting and setting user info Includes methods for retrieving, changing, and resetting passwords Returned by Membership methods such as GetUser and CreateUser Provider Model Enable new functionality in a transparent fashion Enable extensibility for Web services Browser based “Atlas” clients Smart clients Application services as pluggable building blocks Decoupled via configuration Use structural classes for your own features Provider ModelFeature Lifecycle Provider Configuration Me