ASP.NET 4.5 ships with a number of application services. The most important ones are:
‰ Membership — Enables you to manage and work with user accounts in your system.
‰ Roles — Enables you to manage the roles to which your users can be assigned.
‰ Profi le — Enables you to store user-specifi c data in a back-end database.
Figure 16-1 gives an overview of these services and shows how they are related to your website and
the underlying data stores that the services may use