Lab 1: Implementing User Management and Authentication

Using Commerce Server 2002 and the .NET development environment, you can customize user profiles to include user properties that meet your business needs. Using Visual Studio .NET, you can customize user profiles and map them to your Web applications for content personalization. For example, you can personalize your Web site based upon common characteristics (custom attributes) of your users, such as, age, gender, country, language, and so forth.

To add custom attributes you do the following:

1. Allocate space within Microsoft SQL Server to store the custom attributes.

2. Extend the user profile by adding data members.

3. Create a new profile property for each new data member.

4. Create the new site terms custom attributes.

5. Link site terms to the User Object in the Profiles database.

   Note

• If you are using a string data type for your custom field then you do not have to perform steps 4 and 5.

In this lab you will learn how to create custom user profile attributes, extend user profiles using Visual Studio .NET, add registered users in the Commerce Server Users Profile Database, create pages for authentication, log off, and new user registration.

This section contains:

• Step 1: Create Custom User Profiles Attributes
• Step 2: Extend the User Profile Using Visual Studio .NET
• Step 3: Create Custom Properties
• Step 4: Create New Site Terms
• Step 5: Link the Site Terms Using Visual Studio .NET
• Step 6: Create a New User Using Visual Studio .NET
• Step 7: Add User Login and Logoff Pages
• Step 8: Add a New User Registration Page

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