Membership Provider

Ways to manage logins in ASP.NETland:

1. Froms Authentication
2. Active Directory
3. Membership Provider
4. the Facebook/Twitter stuff or maybe OAuth
5. roll your own

 
 

I learned of Membership Provider for the first time via a phone screen this week. It seems that it offers a way to loosely couple authentication to the rest of an application too so that an implementation may, one day, be swapped out.