Authentication, authorization in ASP.Net 2.0

For a long time, web developers have put a lot of effort into implementing authentication and authorization in a web application. It used to require a lot of knowledge and also a lot of coding and testing effort. This was also the case in ASP.Net 1.0. But with the release of ASP.Net 2.0, all of these things have changed.

To implement authentication and authorization in a web application, you can use the built-in features of ASP.Net 2.0. You can use ready-made login controls. There are five login controls built into ASP.Net 2.0. They can be used to create a new user, authenticate an existing user, change a user’s password, recover a user’s password, and log off a logged in user. All these controls have lots of cool features and you can also customize them according to your needs. These controls also offer advanced level customization through the implementation of templates. These controls will meet most of your needs that are required to implement the authentication feature in your web application.

The authorization implementation is also very simple in ASP.Net 2.0. You can use the built-in role management functionality of ASP.Net 2.0. You don’t need to worry about the minute details. Just add the member to an appropriate role and ASP.Net’s authorization mechanism will do the rest for you.

All of the above features require the database tables and all of these tables are automatically created for you by the .Net framework. You can find details about these tables on the Microsoft website.

Therefore, you can save a lot of time and effort by using the ASP.Net out of the box.