Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, Second Edition

Figure 13.10. Creating an application setting

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<appSettings>

<add key="AdminEmail" value="[e-mail]" />

</appSettings>

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To access this data, you need to use the ConfigurationManager class, which is

located in the System.Configuration namespace, like this:

Visual Basic

adminEmail = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("AdminEmail")

C#

adminEmail = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AdminEmail"];

Creating Users and Roles

Open the ASP.NET web site, click the Security tab, and click Enable Roles under

the Roles section. This will add the following line to your Web.config file:

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File: Web.config (excerpt)

<roleManager enabled="true" />

Two new links will appear under Roles: Disable Roles, and Create or Manage Roles.

Click Create or Manage Roles, and use the form shown in Figure 13.11 to create

two roles: one named Users, and another named Administrators.

Figure 13.11. Creating roles

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Creating Users and Roles