
The Membership feature of ASP.NET does just that—makes it better and easier. Membership provides secure credential storage with simple, easy-to-use APIs. Rather than requiring you to repeatedly develop infrastructure features for authenticating users, it is now part of the platform. More importantly, it's a pluggable part of the platform through the new provider pattern, allowing you to easily extend the system (e.g., to add support for LDAP or existing corporate user account systems).
A profile API can store arbitrary properties about both authenticated and anonymous users visiting a Web site (for example, their zip code, gender, theme p..
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