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Build an End-to-End Application

 
About the Application
 
This section of the quickstart will walk you through creating an end-to-end ASP.NET Web application. The scenario application we will be building is a simple reporting page that offers order information to customers.

The application restricts access to the data reporting information -- so that only authenticated users can view it. The authentication credentials (usernames and passwords) are stored within a "Users" database (which means customers do not need to have a windows account in order to login).

The ASP.NET application will then be configured to use Html forms based authentication -- which allow us to create an attractive html login form for users to use when entering their username/password. This provides an ideal login/security mechanism for building Internet deployed web applications.

Although this application scenario is simple (just a basic master/details reporting page), the application code itself should serve as a useful template for adding Internet based security authentication to any ASP.NET web application you wish to build.

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