This is a follow-on update on how to implement non-Active Directory Integrated Smart Card / Client Certificate Authentication with ASP.NET using Http Modules. This long overdue version adds support for ASP.NET Membership, Roles, and Profiles.

Almost six months after the official release of Asp.Net MVC 1.0 and nearly a year after the last release of the starter kit, I've finally rewritten and released the Asp.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit.

Asp.net has a wonderful system built in for handling user accounts and roles. The administration interface is encapsulated in a separate web site that can be accessed from within Visual Studio but it is difficult to integrate into the site. This often leads to building a new user administration are...

Last weekend I posted a release of the MVC Membership Starter Kit that targets Preview 5 of the ASP.Net MVC framework. There was no packaged release targeting Preview 4 (though if you downloaded the latest source, it worked), so this release essentially packages the changes from both previews.

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to work with Preview 3 of the ASP.Net MVC framework.

ASP.NET MVC implementation of an OpenID consumer and Windows Live ID Web Authentication in the ASP.NET MVC Membership Starter Kit.

Troy Goode posted abou this yesterday. Today, there's already an update available containing some cool new stuff!

In this article, Masoud discusses the concept of Cross Application Authentication using ASP.NET authentication model consisting of Membership Providers, web.config configuration, encryption, and decryption of configuration files. At the end of the article he also examines the application of the conc...

How many of you knew that there was a programmatic way of creating the membership tables ?

Create Membership tables in another database than the standard aspnetd

There are several ways to show who is currently online within your ASP.NET Application if you use the build in Membership Provider. I tested a few on performance and accuary which lead me to the following result ..

In this post Keyvan shows the process to use ASP.NET membership and role providers for authentication and authorization in Windows Communication Foundation applications by giving a step by step guide of service configurations to accomplish this.

Exploring login control in vs2005 As the name implies login control provides GUI to log into a website. As we develop websites login feature is quite common functionality in each and every website. I have developed more than 10 web applications and all of them has login feature as common. So In VS...

The XmlMembershipProvider let's you take advantage of the built in mechanisms for authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 only by adding a class to the App_Code folder and an XML file to the App_Data. No code required. This will save you many hours of work.