Before getting into design though, you need to configure the site for membership access. Do this through a choice on the menu at the top of the page. Click on Website. At the bottom of the pulldown menu choose ASP.NET Configuration. This provides access to the ASP.NET Website Administration Tool. This is where the settings are created to provide user account administration. Note: Depending on your firewall settings or other security methods on your own PC, you may need to setup access to the initial user account administration tool screen. Normally this tool appears without a problem through a localhost page, but if it doesn’t, then access needs to be permitted.
Select the Security tab. Before adding user information, an important choice has to be made. If this user system is being created for an Intranet, then it needs to be set up to authenticate users using the Windows authentication process. If hosting on an Internet site, then the security uses forms-based authentication. Selecting this is done from the link named Select authentication type. Once you make this choice and click Done, the security page returns. On this page under the Users section are options to setup user accounts by creating or managing users. With these links you can begin to add user account information including names, passwords, email and a security question. Once users are added, a special database named ASPNETDB.MDF is created.
