The ASP.NET Membership Login control supports templates as other ASP.NET controls. You can customize the contents of the Login control without any limitation, by using templates. You can add any control you wanted to your Login control. The next markup shows how you can use a custom template for the Login control through the LayoutTemplate tag:
<asp:Login …
The ASP.NET membership Login control provides additional customization properties you can use to manage its UI, except ones described in the article How to manage ASP.NET membership Login control appearance. For example, by using them, you can:
– Display a login link instead of a login button;
– Select the text displayed for the …
The ASP.NET membership Login control provides several properties you can use to manage its appearance. For example you can use the different style settings supported by the Login control as follows:
<form id=”form1″ runat=”server”>
<div align=”center”>
<asp:Login ID=”LoginCtrl” runat=”server” BorderColor=”Blue” BorderStyle=”Solid” BorderWidth=”1px”
Font-Bold=”True” Font-Names=”Arial Narrow” Font-Size=”Medium” TextLayout=”TextOnTop”
OnAuthenticate=”LoginCtrl_Authenticate”>
<LoginButtonStyle BackColor=”Silver” ForeColor=”Black” />
The Login control simplifies the creation of a login page for forms authentication in conjunction with the membership API. It provides you with a ready-to-use user interface that queries the user name and password from the user and offers a Log In button for logging the user in. The next picture presents the Login control in action:
ASP.NET ships with several controls you can use in your ASP.NET pages that simplify the process of creating login pages. These controls rely on the underlying forms authentication and the membership API infrastructure. The next table describes security controls that ship with ASP.NET and summarizes their typical usage scenarios:
Control
Primary usage
Login
The …
How to create and authenticate users as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET in VB.NET
You can create new users in your membership provider store, by launching the WAT. You have to select the Website->ASP.NET Web Configuration menu from within Visual Studio. Now you have to switch to the Security tab and select Create User, as shown in the next picture:
Creating users with the WAT in VB.NET
After you have created a …
How to create and authenticate users as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET in C#
You can create new users in your membership provider store, by launching the WAT. You have to select the Website->ASP.NET Web Configuration menu from within Visual Studio. Now you have to switch to the Security tab and select Create User, as shown in the next picture:
Creating users with the WAT in C#
After you have created a …
How to configure connection string and membership provider as a step of Membership API in ASP.NET
You need to configure connection string and membership provider when you want to use SQL Server database or even your custom provider. In these cases, you have to modify web.config file directly or edit the configuration through the IIS MMC snap-in if you are running your application on IIS.
In case of using SQL Server storage (or other database-based …
You can use the aspnet_regsql.exe tool to execute a couple of scripts for creating (or dropping) the membership related database and database tables. These scripts ship with the .NET Framework and you can find them in the .NET Framework directory, as shown in the next picture:
The SQL scripts for installing and uninstalling SQL databases
Two types of …
You can find Aspnet_regsql.exe in the Microsoft.NET Framework directory. If the computer is running multiple .NET Framework versions side-by-side, multiple versions of the tool might be installed. The next table lists the locations where the tool is installed for different versions of the .NET Framework.
Version of .NET Framework
Location of Aspnet_regsql.exe file
.NET Framework version 2.0/3.0/3.5 (32-bit systems)
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
.NET Framework …