I am developing from this month a new web application project, and I think this will be one of the best *** sites on the web (*** means that the plan is still secret). The site will be called Haverut and it will be hosted on: www.haverut.co.il or www.haverut.com.

Now, as you know (or not), Microsoft has a nice Custom Membership and Roles Providers that generates very comfortable SQL Server database to work with and very comprehensive API to communicate with that enable you to manage all the membership and roles issue.

In my first thought, I was planing to build the pilot of my application to work with MS Access database, and ofcourse I wanted to use the Custom Membership and Roles Providers that Microsot supplies. After long searches on the web I found a msi file (you can dowload it here) that after you install it on your machine, it opens you a new template possibility in VS 2005 that called 'ASP.NET Access Providers'. This template generates you automaticly the Access database with all its tables and queries.

But, on the second thought I decided to build the database on SQL Server from the begining (much more secure and efficient).  

A very good acticle and tutorials references you can find at Scott Guthrie's blog at: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/438953.aspx

See you...

(P.S. - If I didn't mentioned, the Custom Membership and Roles Providers is exist in the first place for SQL Server and you can activate with the aspnet_reqsql  command from the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt).