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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (Wrox Professional Guides)

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This is a great book about asp.net 2.0, IIS and security. It provides a lot of background info, once you have that the other pieces of asp.net fall into place and things make a lot more sense. I think for code examples I can always use Google, background info on how it all works together is what you read a book for and this book delivers. I hope this will not be the author's last book.

This is one of the best technical books I've ever read. It gives us detailed information of how ASP.NET 2.0 works behind the scene.

If you are simply looking for a book teaching you how to use Role Management, Membership and other cool features offered by ASP.NET 2.0, this book might not be a good fit for you because it tends to explain lots of background info before jumping into the new features. However if what you want is to understand how all these puzzles interact with each other in the ASP.NET security world, this book should be your first choice.

I bought this book for help with over-riding the membership providers and possible the profile providers. What I got was a full on introduction to how things really work under the covers. Didn't really help me with my original intention, but certainly improved my understanding of security in ASP.Net 2.0.

I highly recommend this book simply to have as a reference working with the security features in ASP.NET 2.0 I agree with other reviewers that alot of the beginning of the book explains teh underlying security details which to many might just want to consider a black box. It is a good reference for the provider models Roles, Membership, but you might want other books for the simpler tutorial to setup login, membership and authentication etc in your ASP.NET 2.0 site

This book is an easy read and takes you from Alpha to Omega of ASP.NET in smooth flow. This is also very thorough with illustrations.

I bought this book because I needed the information for a project that I am currently engaged in. The information contained within was immediately relevant in shaping the solution design. It gave me the how and the why to architect a solid, yet flexible solution.

This text is not a how-to for a beginner. It is also not light reading. It is a dense book; lots of information crammed into it. You have to bring your experience to this book for the full weight of the teaching to come to bear. I highly recommend it to application architects and development team leads.

My peers,

This book provides the reader with material that only an individual who works on the Microsoft ASP.Net team can supply. Stefan does a marvelous job at giving the reader insight into the "plumbing" of the ASP.Net runtime. In addition, the manual contains excellent coverage of the new ASP.Net 2 membership and role management services! If you are an ASP.Net professional who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the product outside of how to write code against it, pick it up!

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Derek Comingore

I'm just making the transition from 1.1 to 2.0 and wanted to learn more about the new login/membership controls and classes.
The book is too much on theory and not enough on examples. The code is also in C#, would be nice to have also included VB examples. With an entire book dedicated to security and membership it would be nice to include some real world project walkthroughs. I'm specifically needing to apply my existing user database table to the new membershipuser class. I need to extend the membershipuser object to include some fields/properties. There's a brief couple of paragraphs that attempt to explain but didn't give me much.

A lot of the other topics in the book are about things that most developers would never need to think about.

This book is like those instruction you will want to give to your team members if you are the leader, but having to keep reading that for close to 600 pages!
Yes, the target is clearly not defined and if you want to get a work done by reading this book, please forget it.
If you implemented membership and roles, and seeking some extra advice may be you might find it useful. It does not really explain the various systems, illustrating each well enough.
I opened Forms Authetication, hoping to learn how to implement it in my project, just to read more than a page of people creating 50 years cookie. Is 2 or 3 lines of sentenses not enough to let someone know about 50 years cookie?