new guy needs some help

[Guest]

Hi,
I'm new to asp.net 2.0 and I'm working on creating a web site that allows
user to log into the web site and view information pertaining to them such as
accounts, sales, and other information they are assoicated with. I've been
reading about the membershipAPI and the Logon Controls, which looks like
they'll work, but I have exsiting database (SQL) that already has usernames
and passwords in it from a windows application. So for the web, how can I
create a logon page, validate the user and take show data based on their ID?
Also I'm looking into using Forms Auth, so how can I allow the user to view
all the pages in the web site once they log in?
If someone can point to some examples of this or show some code snippets
that would be great. this is my first web app i'm doing that is allowing
users to log in and i'm not sure how to go about creating it correctly.

 

[Guest]

Check out Scott Guthrie's blog. It is chock full of answers to your questions.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/438953.aspx

 

[Tom]

I was looking at that actually, but I don't see were I can use my SQL
database with the 2.0 logon control to validate the users.
I'm new to the 2.0 and web development, do you have some examples of this
using SQL db, but not the aspuser database?

 

[Guest]

Check this out, it's on his site also. It will tell you how to use your sql
database instead of the one in the box.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/25/423703.aspx

 

[Tom]

thanks, but my current db already has a user table and a role table for all
users.
what i'm trying to figure out (if possible) is use the logon control and go
against my user and role tables in my current database. I'm trying to
prevent the creation of any user tables that already exist in my current
database schema.

 

[Guest]

Well then it seems you will need to create your own membership provider.

Take a look at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/downloads/providers/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/d...rary/en-us/dnaspp/html/ASPNETProvMod_Prt1.asp