configuration settings for the Role Manager on the MSDN website at http://bit.ly/LmtmB3 if
you have the need to further configure the Role Manager.
With the Membership and Role Manager providers configured and the database created, it’s time to
manage the users and roles in your system. You have a few ways to accomplish that:
‰ Using the Web Site Administration Tool, generally referred to as the WSAT
‰ Using IIS (the Windows web server) on recent Windows editions (you see more about this in
Chapter 19)
‰ Programmatically, using the Role Manager API (application programming interface)
Managing roles using the Role Manager API is beyond the scope of this book. If you want to
learn more about it, get a copy of Wrox’s Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB (ISBN:
978-1-118-31182-0).
The Web Site Administration Tool is used for a lot more than managing roles alone, and is discussed
in detail in the next section. It is only available from your local machine as a menu shortcut in VS.
As such, it’s great for setting up the initial users and roles during development, but it isn’t suitable
for managing users in a production environment.