Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three tiers. This article takes what was developed in article two and adds Atlas extensions to make it work even better. The Article on MSDN uses the March CTP (Community Technology Preview). There is an update on my blog as well as a download to make it work correctly with the June CTP.

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This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to handle personalization information using the ASP.NET 2.0 custom provider facility. Then, it goes on to explains some fancy tricks you can do with this ObjectDataSource to make accessing membership even easier. Finally it presents a free tool available on the web that lets you cut and paste part of your web.config file into a web page and out comes a ready-to-compile C-Sharp ObjectDataSource.

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This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft’s implementation of AJAX called Atlas. You can view a live demonstration of the technology developed in this article at the URL http://livedemos.peterkellner.net/AJAXDemo.

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With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, there is no “out of the box” solution for maintaining the Membership and Role databases in Microsoft IIS. This is a problem when you move your application from development to a production IIS server. The utility that Microsoft provides, ASP.NET Web Configuration, can be run only in a development, non-production environment. This article and its associated code solve this by implementing a three-tier solution to Member and Role management while using standard Microsoft ASP.NET tools. This means that it will run in any ASP.NET 2.0 environment, including IIS. The solution is flexible and very easy to add to any existing ASP.NET 2.0 website project.

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This article is the first of two articles describing the secure use and setup of a three tier solution for managing ASP.NET Membership and Roles. This first article will focus on configuring, using, and, most importantly, securing this solution, as well as providing an overview of how it can be implemented in a typical Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Web solution. The Membership and Roles objects will be treated as working without delving into their internal structures. Managing Members and Roles will seem no different than managing data from a simple data source. In the second article, the internals of these controls and objects will be explained in enough detail so developers would be able to build their own using similar techniques.

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