Membership class: Provides the api to manage users, create, find, generatePassword, ValidateUser, and more...
MembershipUser Class: Stores name, email, password, question/answer, but doesnt manager user defined properties like profiles GetPassword, ResetPassword, UpdateUser, properties describing user info. One could make a page that allows to find users, delete user, select user from a listView control, which would provide a details view and update a password, or button to reset it.
Managing users from your own interface instead of configuration manager or web.config
API: MembershpiCreateStatus, Membership.Createuser(...), Membership.GetallAllUsers() retunrs an array of users. Membership.DeleteUser(strUserName), MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser(strUserName), user.ChangePassword(old, new),
user.ChangePaswwrdQuestionAndAnswer(...), Membership.FindUsersByEmail(strUserName), Membership.FindUserByName(strUserName), user.ResetPassword(oldPassword), Managing Roles from your own interface instead of configuration manager or web.config
Roles Class: AddUser(s)ToRole(s)(...), CreateRole/DeleteRole, GetUsersInRole retrieves MembershipUsers objects, FindUsersInRole returns juste the names, GetRolesForUser/IsUserInRole, GetAllRoles returns a list of roles, RemoveUser(s)FromRole(s), RoleExists(s).
The delete from role method will delete user(s) from the role, and there is also another method that deletes the role itself or throws an exception if there is a user in this role.
Creating a custom provider
Membership and roles layer are based on the provider concept, that, API abstracted from data acesss layer. To create a provider that doesnt use sql server or express, you'd add a class to the App_Code folder. Inherti fromSystem.Web.Security.MembershipProvider or RoleProvider, Provide all the code for each of the methods, they map one to one to the API and you need to supply them all if you're creating your own provider. When inherting from the provider, let visual studio create the member stubs by right clicking on the class you inherit from, it will insert all the mothods you need to implement.
Membership controls vs custom providers
The controls have a property that indicates wich provider to use. You can also create your own controls and use the
Membership and roles API.
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