Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

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allows you to continue presenting these services to your users without requiring non-
Ajax full page refreshes. Using them is very straightforward, and the ScriptManager
control is used to manage the generation and downloading of the correct proxies.
In this section, you’ll first see how to add forms-based authentication to your
ASP.NET AJAX site, and then you’ll go into accessing the profile services.
Using Forms-Based Authentication in ASP.NET
Configuring forms-based authentication to use ASP.NET membership services is very
straightforward, and very well handled for you by the framework. In this section, you’ll go
through, step by step, how to create a simple site that uses membership, authentication,
and roles, and how ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2005 enable this for you. You’ll then take
what you’ve learned in this section to the next, where you will access the membership
and profile data directly from JavaScript using your Ajax code.
Step 1: Creating a New Web Site Application
To get started, create a new ASP.NET AJAX–enabled web site in Visual Studio 2005. Use
the HTTP location so that the site runs on IIS instead of the Cassini server. Call the site
FormsSecured. Your dialog should look something like that in Figure 13-1.
Figure 13-1. Creating a new web site in Visual Studio 2005