MemberProtect Gets A New Installer and Administration GUI

by Jason Sherrill
July 15, 2010

While many geeks like us don’t always mind the challenge involved in conquering a new platform or software application, we also understand that time is money, especially for independent developers and consultants. Prior to our latest update, it would not be unusual for a developer using MemberProtect® for the first time to spend three or four hours setting up a new ASP.NET website project to use MemberProtect to perform user authentication, manage users, roles and privileges. We’ve now shaved that time from a few hours down to less than five minutes. Let me show you how.

We’ve added a new installer that will perform the following tasks for you automatically in less than five minutes:

1. Create a new database on your SQL Server
2. Automatically build all of the MemberProtect data structures in the new database
3. Create your first MemberProtect user, organization, role and privilege inside the database
4. Deploy a Lite version of our InetActive™ web-based site management application to your hard drive as a Visual Studio 2010 solution
5. Import your MemberProtect license into the application

For most developers, this solution will serve as a solid foundation for any new membership website, whether a small bank or credit union website, or for the next ginormous social networking phenomenon. Since MemberProtect is a membership & security framework, we do not lock you into any design or layout constraints - designing and building the front end website is still in 100% under your control. But the membership foundation is now in place, as is the web-based GUI for managing your users, organizations and roles. Since we’ve provided you with the source code, you can customize InetActive Lite to meet your needs.

Watch this video for a 10 minute walk through of the setup process and for an introduction to InetActive Lite. Or better yet, just download your free MemberProtect Lite Edition package and try it for yourself.

Getting Started with MemberProtect from InetSolution on Vimeo.