CKS:Internet/Extranet Edition - SharePoint 2007 Forms Based Authentication Solution Released

I'm very happy to announce that our first pre-Beta release of the SharePoint Forms Based Authentication features that the Community Kit for SharePoint Internet/Extranet edition has been working on is available for download on CodePlex.  This solution builds on many of the things I created for the version on my website but adds significant improvents in management of users and roles.  This solution also gives administrators the ability to approve/deny membership before the user is added to the MembershipProvider database.  We still have more to do but we wanted to get this work out into the hands of the public so we can get any feedback you might have as early as possible.

I want to thank everybody who downloaded the source code for the project I created around Forms Based Authentication with SharePoint.  The work of the CKS:IEE team supercedes this project in terms of functionality and usability and so I won't be offering any further support of the version I created myself.  Basically you're better off using the CKS version as it will continue to grow in functionality and be more stable over time.

This was a group effort and so along with my relatively minor contribution you can thank Zac Smith, Edin Kapic, Brendon Schwartz, and Stacey Draper for making FBA easier and more useful in SharePoint.