This chapter discusses the need to allow users to register
and get an account on the website and be able to update their profile
information. This way, each authenticated user will be able to customize
his/her area on the site the way he/she likes. Membership API, Role Management,
and Profile new features in ASP.NET 2.0 were presented to show you how easy it
is to develop such an authentication/authorization/profiling systems with
ASP.NET 2.0.