Besides adding and configuring a few ASP.NET Server Controls, you didn’t do any coding in this exercise.
Still, you were able to implement a fully functional login procedure that enables a user to sign up
for an account and then log in to the site. So how does all this work? As you learned earlier, the ASP.
NET controls talk to the configured application service providers; a software layer that sits between the
login controls and the SQL Server database that keeps track of the users.