In Visual Studio 2010 there is a handy tool for managing users for my Silverlight Business Application. How do I do this with my deployed application?
Good question, I'm surprised there isn't a built-in, pre-canned solution :)
There's an option here: http://mywsat.codeplex.com/
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is it possible to use iis 7 to manage users when using forms authentication with asp.net
User management in Silverlight, create custom UI or use ASP.NET website administration tool?
Sorry to say, but you will have to write user management code in your app.
You might find this article interesting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210306174425/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/052307-1.aspx
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Regarding ASP.NET Identity: how often is ASP.NET Identity used in real situation website projects?
We were only taught this in our studies and was wondering is there anything other options other any ASP.NET Identity when using Visual Studio and that is better.
Asp.Net Identity is the latest library by Microsoft and before it, we have been using Asp.Net Membership Provider and Web Security.
Since Asp.Net identity is built on OWIN, and working nice with Asp.Net Core, I don't see any other option to be used or offered by Microsoft.
You can use it for Forms Authentication, OAuth, Integration with Most of Social Identity Provider and Azure Active Directory.
I would say, it is the way to go
You can use MembershipReboot too, it is also good library for authentication in ASP.NET.
link: https://github.com/brockallen/BrockAllen.MembershipReboot
I have built several ASP.NET web applications in the past but have always struggled to get the application's basic structure in place. Building a framework using a combination of Silverlight/RIA services (or LightSwitch) is quite easy, but this makes your application not accessible through browsers that do not support Silverlight.
Is there any ASP.NET application framework with an HTML UI that provides the basic services that lightswitch provides?
By basic services I mean:
User Management
Themes
Standard way of displaying/editing basic records and master/detail records
see:
Integrating Visual Studio LightSwitch Application Into An Existing Website using IFrames
Check out http://www.evolutility.org/ or http://www.rapidwebdev.org/, both are opensource.
I have a website that uses ASP .Net membership and roles using the SqlMembershipProvider and SqlRoleProvider. Right now I am only using this for a small section of the site that only 2 people have access to. The site may expand in the near future and the number of users could grow into the thousands.
My question is, is there any kind of open source administration tool for managing users or am I stuck building my own? I can't really use the ASP .Net Web Application Administration Tool because, as far as I know, it is only accessible from Visual Studio. User administration would be handled by our help desk and would need to handle all of the things that the stored procedures in the SQL server provide such as adding users on the customer's behalf, resetting passwords, unlocking users, etc.
I just can't believe that an administration front-end has not been developed to handle these sorts of things and provide more functionality than the ASP .Net Configuration page provides.
Take a look at MyWSAT on CodePlex.
http://mywsat.codeplex.com/
MyWSAT aka ASP.NET WSAT is a WebForms based Website Starter Kit for the ASP.NET Membership Provider with Forms Authentication. It provides you with all the security features required for a site out of the box so you start focusing on building your pages. It allows you to manage membership users online once your site is deployed. It features complete administrative back-end functionality and designed to manage users, as well as admin pages for users to manage their own user data.
during web site design stage or when web site is running on production server?
If it's used then it's during design stage to make some settings, create (test) users and roles and mix these two together.
Personally I don't really use it during development for customers as these applications mostly have to integrate with a legacy users database or something else like NAM. For these I simply create custom membership and role providers, plug them in, works.
If you are building an asp.net site from scratch its a very useful tool to expedite your development process.
It can create an authentication system for you that ties directly into the login control available in visual studio.
I find it particularly useful for creating and configuring the .NET Roles and Membership tables.
i am working on a web application that now requires a CMS.
Could you suggest me a product that grant integration with my existing application.
The latter is implemented using .Net framework 3.5 Linq to sql and SQL Server 2008
I may consider even not open source product (affordable price)
i want to create a Master page and allow the application's users to modify the content.
Ideally give them the ability to add controls such as image sliders (but this is not the main scope)
Main objective is the ability to modify the content usually text. Bu more is always better........
Thanks
http://n2cms.com/ is very powerful cms that can be integrated with your application.
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ is a good open source choice.
Graffiti is now Open Source. I'm not sure how it integrates with an existing application.
SharePoint is the obvious answer, considering it's an ASP.NET application itself. It's free with Windows Server 2003 or 2008.
Umbraco is fantastic and free. Allowing you to integrate many plugins. If you are a developer you will probably fall in live as it offers a lot of integration.
DotNetNuke has a great (if not long winded) video intro and online demo so you can see how it works.