kjlkjMost web sites require managing users from personal details to authentication. Event though, ASPNet provides some tools ease this process with a Sql Server backend database. This can be tedious to manage and implies a responsibility to keep personal data safe furthermore people put some time and effort into filling in their Windows Live Id profile information. Of course some web sites make their business on having a huge user database. However community web sites such as netfxfactory does not gain any added value from managing its own user database. Various blogs and papers on the web explain how to leverage Windows live authentication mechanism to validate a local user (see here here and here). They mostly let someone associate its web site account with his Windows Live Id however it’s name, dob, email etc… are still managed localy by the web site (this is the functionalities offered by the Memebership provider offered with the Windows Live SDK). Only the authentication mechanism is leveraged here.
The goal of this article is to go one step further and externalize as much as possible the user management. Managing locally user’s data requires an extra effort from the user to keep his information up to date. We will demonstrate a solution using Windows Live based on a custom aspnet membership provider used to pull out information from Windows Live such as User info but also his contacts info.
This is a first step towards S+S as promoted by Microsoft.
Most web sites require managing users from personal details to authentication. Event though, ASPNet provides some tools ease this process with a Sql Server backend database. This can be tedious to manage and implies a responsibility to keep personal data safe furthermore people put some time and effort into filling in their Windows Live Id profile information. Of course some web sites make their business on having a huge user database. However community web sites such as netfxfactory does not gain any added value from managing its own user database. Various blogs and papers on the web explain how to leverage Windows live authentication mechanism to validate a local user (see here here and here). They mostly let someone associate its web site account with his Windows Live Id however it’s name, dob, email etc… are still managed localy by the web site (this is the functionalities offered by the Memebership provider offered with the Windows Live SDK). Only the authentication mechanism is leveraged here.
The goal of this article is to go one step further and externalize as much as possible the user management. Managing locally user’s data requires an extra effort from the user to keep his information up to date. We will demonstrate a solution using Windows Live based on a custom aspnet membership provider used to pull out information from Windows Live such as User info but also his contacts info.
This is a first step towards S+S as promoted by Microsoft.
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