Introduction

Authentication and authorization as fundamental part of a web application was tremendously simplified with arrival of .NET 2.0. Basic authentication and authorization can be performed using different DBMS systems. There are numerous examples implementing authentication using Access database. One such example can be found in the article ASP.NET 2.0 Authentication using Access Database. In this article the example implements bare minimum to achieve desired goal, namely authentication and authorization using access database. However, authentication and authorization is only first part of the user management system. Second fundamental part of user management is allowing users to create an account at will. In such instances, users can sign up and become members of the community without administrator intervention. Furthermore, the user should be able to provide contact information (email) so that he/she can be contacted if necessary. Contact information must be verified. This article focuses on very simple ways to achieve such goal.
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Introduction

Authentication and authorization is one of the basic components of web application development. When I first started web development, I quickly realized that authentication and authorization of resources were performed in variety of ways. Throughout years, I developed variety of web applications, primarily for my own use. With arrival of ASP.NET 1.0, authentication and authorization were simplified. ASP.NET 2.0 takes this feature even further by providing the user with powerful tools to quickly implement authentication and authorization. With these tools, a user can utilize MS SQL 2005 Server, XML data source, MS Access database and other data sources to retrieve user information. In this article I will focus on bare minimum needed to implement forms authentication using access database.

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