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Steps for Creating a Custom Membership Provider and Membership User utilizing a DataSet Table Adapter:

Introduction: Creating a Custom Membership Provider and Membership User utilizing a DataSet Table Adapter.
Step 1: Creating the Project and Folders.
Step 2: Table Data Structure and Web.config for this Tutorial.
Step 3: Creating The DataSet.
Step 4: Creating the Table Adapter Methods for GetUserByLogin, GetUserByUserName, and InsertUser.
Step 5: Creating our Custom MembershipProvider Class.
Step 6: Adding Properties to Our Custom MembershipProvider Class.
Step 7: Creating Our Custom MembershipUser Class.
Step 8: Customizing our MembershipProvider Class.
Step 9: Our Custom RoleProvider Class.
Step 10: Our Master page.
Step 11: Our Cookie Handler class.
Step 12: Our Log In page.
Step 13: Our Register page.
Step 14: Our Log Out page.
Step 15: Our Change Password page.
Step 16: Our Administration page.
Step 17: Loading a Menu Programmatically based on Roles.
Step 18: Our Default page.
Download the ZIP files:
VB: ShiningStarCustomMemberProviderTutorial.zip

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• Introduction
• Section 1: Creating Our Project, Database and Tables
• Section 2: WebForm: Table, Label, and Panel Controls
• Section 3: FileUpload Control and Functionality
• Section 4: Auto Formatting a Web Form GridView
• Section 5: Bind the Excel Data to a GridView using an OleDbDataAdapter
• Section 6: Data Access Layer DataSet TableAdapters
• Section 7: TableAdapter Select and Insert Queries with Parameters
• Section 8: Using an OleDbDataReader to Retrieve Our Data
• Section 9: Using our TableAdapters, DataTables and Intellisense
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