Since Rahul and I have moved into our new home office, its been nothing but business. He has inspired me to start weekly releases for Rainbow 2.0 to not only our private servers but novell as well. These releases will begin once ASPNETDB is solidified and added to our test novell subversion server. This will also allow the first group development on Rainbow 2.0. Since ASPNETDB is the major dependency, I felt I should update the community on our progress. The MGF team, combined with fixes from Filip Camara, have produced a solid Rainbow ASPNETDB implementation. An internal build of Alpha 3.1 now comes with its own ASPNETDB [ for now ] installed. The normal admin user is now inside of the ASPNETDB instead of rb_users as well as roles. New users can only be added executing SQL as these methods are being worked on [Rainbow now has custom providers for Membership,Profiles, and Roles]. MGF reported to me this morning, that profiles are working with a minor issue with saving hashed passwords. I am pressing for hashed passwords because I want Rainbow 2.0 to be more secure by default. My screen shots are of two database modules that rainbow comes with standard : database table editor and the database tool. Both of these examples are from Rainbow Portal 2.0 Alpha 3.1 w/membership [internal build].

     First, the database table editor is a nice tool to do standard CRUD in SQL DBs. I use it in my screen shot below to show the ASPNETDB usersInRoles table and its integration with rainbow.





     Second, the database tool allows you to do a range of Database actions. My favorite is it allows you to get information on your database such as SPROCS or perform queries. Below, I click the info on aspnet_Applications to show the details of the table and the power of this tool.