Storing Membership Data in ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application’s SQL Server Database

This is a summary of the MSDN article How To: Use Forms Authentication with SQL Server in ASP.NET 2.0.

ASP.NET 2.0 allows storing web-site users and profiles in a database and maintain access control based on that information. The concept is referred to as ‘Forms Authentication’. The database can be SQL Server or Active Directory. Here, you will see how to store them in SQL Server.