ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the four security frameworks included in ASP.NET Framework. In the first part, you learned how to authenticate users by enabling both Forms and Windows authentication. You learned how to take advantage of several advanced features of authentication such as cookieless authentication and cross-application authentication.

You also learned how to authorize users to access particular resources. You not only learned how to control access to ASP.NET pages, but also how you can control access to image files and other files or pages.

Next, you learned how to use ASP.NET Membership to represent user information. You learned how to use the Membership class to create users, delete users, and modify user properties ...