Membership Configuration and Management

You configure the membership system in your application's Web.config file. The easiest way to configure and manage membership is with the Web Site Administration Tool, which provides a wizard-based interface. As part of membership configuration, you specify:

• What membership provider to use. (This typically also specifies what database to store membership information in.)
  

• Password options such as encryption and whether to support password recovery based on a user-specific question.
  

• Users and passwords. If you are using the Web Site Administration Tool, you can create and manage users directly. Otherwise, you must call membership functions to create and manage users programmatically.