In Simple Steps- P14:This is a book that helps you to learn using Visual Studio 2008. Precision, an easy-to-understanding style, real life examples in support of the concepts, and practical approach in presentation are some of the features that make the book unique in itself. The text in the book is presented in such a way that is equally helpful to beginners as well as professionals. | Urheberrechtlich geschütztes Material in Simple Steps Introduction Login controls are used in a website to provide a robust login solution for websites without writing a single line of code. These controls play an important role while implementing security in a website. Security is implemented in a website mainly through two processes authentication and authorization. The process of recognizing the identity of a user is known as authentication. Providing access to various resources such as databases and printers to the authenticated users is known as authorization. websites can be made highly secure by allowing only authenticated users to access any of the website resources. In earlier versions of Visual Studio the task of securing a website was performed by prompting a developer to write security business logic in code-behind file or setting the identity of users inside the authentication and authorization tags of the file. However both these approaches are found to be little cumbersome for developers. Now the task of securing a website has become very easy with the introduction of Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Integrated Development Environment IDE . Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 IDE provides a rich set of controls for this purpose under the Login tab of its Toolbox. You can find the following controls under the Login tab of the Toolbox Login Login Name LoginStatus Login View PasswordRecovery CreatcUserWizard ChangePassword In this chapter you learn how to create user accounts as it is necessary to use Login controls in websites. You also learn about some of the Login controls available with Visual Studio 2008. Now let s know how to create a user account for an website. Creating User Accounts To work with the Login controls you should first create a user account by using the Web Site Administration Tool. Perform the following steps to create a user account by using Web Site Administration Tool 1. Open Microsoft
