What are the various ways of authentication techniques in ASP.NET? There are basically three types of authentication modes in ASP.NET –
Windows Authentication – windows authentication uses our system credentials for the authentication purpose.
Forms Authentication – This is a form based authentication. Login Control in ASP.NET supports this kind of authentication.
Passport Authentication - Passport authentication lets you to use Microsoft’s passport service to authenticate users of your application.
What are Web Part controls in ASP.NET? Web part controls are integrated controls which are used to create a website. This allows the user to change the outlook, content and state of the pages in browser.
What does .edmx consists of? .edmx file is a XML file and it has Conceptual Model, Storage Model and Mapping details i.e, SSDL (Store schema definition language), CSDL (Conceptual schema definition language), MSL (Mapping specification language). Conceptual Models are the model classes which contain the relationships. These are independent of the database design. Storage Models are our database design models, which contains database tables, views, stored procs and keys with relationships. The Mapping will have the information on how the Conceptual Models are mapped to Storage Models.
