Study the LoginView class

Hi Rory,

First, I'm glad that you've got custom membership provider working, great
progress :)

For the question here, let me confirm my understanding, you have multiple
pages which use membership and authentication, you're wondering how to make
some of those pages require user to logon/authenticated and some other
doesn't (allow unauthenticated/anonymous users), correct?

For Forms authentication and membershp service, they're actually two
separate things. Forms authentication starts at the begining of
ASP.NET(1.0,1.1..), while membership service start from ASP.NET 2.0.  
Forms authentication is a authenticaiton schema(like windows
authenticaiton)  which is used to provide security authorization (protect
pages or url resource in asp.net app). It can work without using membershp.
 

And for membership, it is a service which used to help easily build up a
user account system so that we can use standard API to manage user
account(such as validate a useraccount, change or update it .....). You can
also use membershp service without using Forms authentication.

Anyway, they are used together in most cases.  Here are some good resource
for you to get more ideas on this.

#Explained: Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480476.aspx

#ASP.NET Forms Authentication - Part 1
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/06/formsauthp1.html

#ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/ASP.NET-2.0-Membership_2C0
0_-Roles_2C00_-Forms-Authentication_2C00_-and-Security-Resources-.aspx

Now for the questions here, to make some pages require authetication while
some other not, the ASP.NET forms authentication has built-in support on
this. You can use <location> element in web.config file to specify the
authorization setting for a particular url (such as a sub folder or a
parituclar page).

#How do I use Forms Authentication for only a portion of my site?
http://www.dnzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=60

#location Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b6x6shw7.aspx

another means is putting different pages into differnt sub directory and
you can put a web.config in sub directory to have its own <authorization>
setting.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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