I want to not display or display parts of a page depending on 
authentication. I have a work around for this that I used in classic asp. I 
set permissions of a text file, then ask if user has permission on that text 
file, if the do I show data. But wondered if ASP.Net would let me do this in 
a more elegant way

Have you looked at the built in authentication features in ASP.NET 2005?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/eeyk640h.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tw292whz.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178329.aspx

The Club Web Site Starter Kit has good entry level examples:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718342.aspx

-- 
Mike

Mike McIntyre [MVP]
http://www.getdotnetcode.com


"ThatsIT.net.au" <me@thatsit> wrote in message 
news:On1iw721HHA.1100@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>I want to not display or display parts of a page depending on 
>authentication. I have a work around for this that I used in classic as
p. I
> set permissions of a text file, then ask if user has permission on that 
> text file, if the do I show data. But wondered if ASP.Net would let me do 
> this in a more elegant way
>