Extending ASP.NET 2.0 Membership

This article explains some of the basics about “Membership” in ASP.NET 2.0 and how to extend the ASP.NET 2.0 security model

Extending the Membership Role Provider

Membership

The ASP.NET 2.0 membership role provider (from the SQL Server side) is a collection of MS SQL tables, stored procedures, and views called SqlMembershipProvider. This provider uses a database named aspnetdb and can be installed on your SQL server by running the SQL Server script found in the .net directory of Visual Studio install. More...

Medium Trust Overview

The default ASP.NET 2.0 application run mode is with full trust. However, if your application is required to run in a MEDIUM TRUST environment you will need to consider the impacts of medium trust on the design and development of your application. Applications that are being upgraded from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 will have additional considerations because the security settings in 1.1 and 2.0 are slightly different.

Medium trust is often used in hosted environments were the application is isolated from other applications running on the same web server or web farm.

 Medium trust security settings restrict your application in the following ways:More...