Your First-Tiered ASP.Net Web Application (Part 3) - 23 Jul 2002

This is the third article of a multipart series that willwalk you through setting up a typical merchant storefront website. It isintended to give a very quick walkthrough using Visual Studio.Net anddemonstrate how quickly a three tiered web application can be created.  Thethird installment walks through the user login system and some very simpleASP.NET security.

ASP.NET security comes in three flavors: Windows authentication, Microsoft Passport, and Forms authentication. Windows authentication uses existing Windows user accounts and is often agood choice for intranets with a fixed number of users. Passport is centralized authentication service provided by Microsoft andis already implemented with Hotmail and MSN. Unfortunately, at this time, there is no native code for Passport in .NETfor the backend implementation. Until Microsoft releases a native .NET package, implementing Passport requires using awrapper for a COM object in order use. (Pleasecorrect me if I am wrong.) This leaves Forms authentication as our best option at the moment for a public user registration system.

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