Ive been tasked with adding user profiles and an administration piece to manage those profiles for our website.  I had become fairly adept at asp.net 1.1 but now with asp.net 2.0 I started reading about the new membership features, the provider api's etc.  All the articles I read, used the web admin tool to mange users.  I knew there are really two pieces to providing user logins to a website - the user profiles and the admin portion to manage those users.  So my question(s) boil down to the following:

- can I use DNN and still use my pages ive already written
- can i require authentication only for a select number of pages (via include file or other method) ?
- can the tables and/or stored procs (if any) used with DNN be integrated with an sql server existing databse ?

Basically, I want to integrate my pages with a DNN instllation if possible, and use only those features of DNN that i need.  Maybe i should look at it another way, I can just plug my pages into a DNN install, then modify my pages to use the authentication where needed ?

comments welcome.  thanks in advance

If you downloaded and installed DNN you would already have had your answers, but here goes.

-Yes, you can install DNN, and use an iframe control to use pages you have already implementd, but it would be best to do that as an interim solution until you have moved your content etc to DNN.

-Yes and much more, DNN has a very complete security model, and its a content management system, so no includes etc needed.

-Not really, but with a bit of expermitation you might be able to import your existing data into DNN, alternatively if your existing data is part of a web application you could convert that to a collection of modules, or even just use the IFrame Module.

But like I said, install it, get to know it and play with it and all your questions will be answered.

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