user-management

ASP.NET MVC 2 - Trying to configure role/user management via ASP.NET Configuration Tool

First, my development environment: Win7 laptop with Visual Studio Professional 2010. IIS is NOT installed. I'm trying to turn on and set up some roles for user management via the ASP.NET Configuration Tool, as demonstrated in the MVCMusicStore tutorial. When I click on the 'Security' tab, I get the following error: "There is a proble...

Using a "custom" user ID as opposed to the user's real, auto_incremented database ID in web applications ?

I'm not sure about its terminology, but for http://www.somedomain.com/user/123456, the "custom user ID" I'm referring to is 123456. I have seen this on quite a lot of websites, in fact, even SO uses something similar. What I'm curious about is: What are they ? - I guess they can't be the real, auto_incremented user ID from the database...

What tool do you use to manage beta testers for a web application?

Hi all, Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, but I figured a few coders might have some thoughts on beta testing their code. I have written a web application that I am going to beta test with a small audience (10-20), and will eventually develop an application for the iOS platform. What I am looking for is a tool that will help m...