This project takes the C# port of janrain's OpenID library, maintained here:

http://code.google.com/p/dotnetopenid/ http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetopenid/ and wraps it in a developer-friendly ASP.NET membership provider, allowing as close to an out-of-the-box developer experience as possible.

As an ASP.NET developer, you can plug in OpenID to your application and use it as you use any other standard authentication plug-in. The starter kit gives you a quick-start sample to show how it all works.

Our goals for this project are to make OpenID for .NET developers:

Simple to use: Make OpenID simple for developers to plug in to any ASP.NET project Familiar: Leverage the Membership Provider infrastructure in ASP.NET

RELEASE NOTES The current .vsi file 'OpenID Membership Provider Starter kit for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 0.4' corrects "No Session State Found" error after login. This build corrects all known issues to date.

(12/09/2007) 'OpenID Membership Provider Starter kit for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 0.3' protects password data for OpenID users by creating unusable passwords and salts for users having OpenID logins (OpenID users are authenticated via their Identity Provider and therefore have no need for local passwords). This will allow applications to use the same Membership database for one application that uses both OpenID and Forms authentication.

(12/03/2007) 'OpenID Membership Provider Starter kit for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 0.2' corrects the janrain.openid.dll incompatibility error that was found in the first release.

About The OpenID Membership ProviderUsing the ASP.NET Membership Provider model, the OpenID Membership Provider allows you to leverage declarative authorization and other ASP.NET providers (such as Roles Providers) with OpenID authentication.

To learn more about OpenID, visit OpenID.net. OpenID authentication is made possible through third party Identity Providers. This Starter Kit assumes your users will make use of existing OpenID Identity Providers (IDPs).