ASP.NET 2.0 adds many security enhancements to make building Web sites that handle passwords (for example) much easier by providing encryption features in the controls right out of the box.
by Wei-Meng Lee
October 27, 2005
SP.NET 2.0 comes with several new security controls located under the Login tab in the Toolbox (see Figure 1) that greatly simplify the life of a Web developer. Using the new security controls, you can now perform tasks such as user logins, registration, password changes, and more, with no more effort than dragging and dropping controls onto your Web form. In this article, I will show you how you can use these new controls to perform user authentication.
To begin, lets explore using the LoginView, LoginStatus and LoginName controls. First, let's build a Web project using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, so go ahead and launch the Visual Studio IDE. From the File menu, and click New Web Site to create a new Web project. Name the project C:\SecurityControls.
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SP.NET 2.0 comes with several new security controls located under the Login tab in the Toolbox (see 
