Prologue We recently converted our Intranet from Forms authentication to Windows authentication. While this has several distinct advantages for us (i.e. single-sign on, users don’t have to manage another account etc.), it has not been without some significant pitfalls as well. In searching the internet for advice on how to make this transition, ...

Prologue One of the features I’ve been working on lately is adding membership/profiles to our website. In the past we haven’t offered this feature on our site, but recently we’ve made some changes that make this a good idea. In the process of trying to do this, I found that I would like the user to be able to enter/edit profile information on two ...

Prologue It’s been over a year since I finished this series of posts, and I really thought I was done. I found however (now that I’m using it in production at work) that there is a slight oversight I plan on correcting in this post. This will be a “short, sweet and to the point” posting. (And I’m not done yet… there’s a part 9. If you want to ...

Prologue A funny thing happened on the way to the… management page. I found a kind of an anomaly taking place when you configure your Membership Provider use one application and your Role Provider is configured to use a different one. What I found is that I had users I deleted still assigned to some of my roles (phantom users). Problem In the ...

Prologue **Author Note – If you are bewildered by a line (perhaps two) that are red and bold, don’t they that they’re errors, they are corrections/additions. Please see the comments, after the article for comments regarding the highlighted line(s).** (If you want to follow along with the rest of the series, you can create the management page ...

Prologue **Author Note – If you are bewildered by a line (perhaps two) that are red and bold, don’t they that they’re errors, they are corrections/additions. Please see the comments, after the article for comments regarding the highlighted line(s).** (If you want to follow along with the rest of the series, you can create the ...

Prologue **Author Note – If you are bewildered by a line (perhaps two) that are red and bold, don’t they that they’re errors, they are corrections/additions. Please see the comments, after the article for comments regarding the highlighted line(s).** (If you want to follow along with the rest of the series, you can create the management page ...

Prologue **Author Note – If you are bewildered by a line (perhaps two) that are red and bold, don’t they that they’re errors, they are corrections/additions. Please see the comments, after the article for comments regarding the highlighted line(s).** (If you want to follow along with the rest of the series, you can create the management page ...

Prologue **Author Note – If you are bewildered by a line (perhaps two) that are red and bold, don’t they that they’re errors, they are corrections/additions. Please see the comments, after the article for comments regarding the highlighted line(s).** (If you want to follow along with the rest of the series, you can create the management page ...

Prologue: **Author’s Note** – Thank you to everyone for your comments. It has come to my attention that I didn’t pay enough attention to a couple of the details. For that I apologize. I created the code that resulted in this page and then recreated it doing optimizations as I went and converting it from a page to a user control. Sometimes I ...