This simple and extremely powerful control allows you to display:
– a different set of controls for anonymous and authenticated users.
– different content based on which roles the currently logged-in user is assigned to
The LoginView control is a template control with different types of templates:
– one for anonymous users
– one for …
This simple control displays:
– a login link if the user is not authenticated which automatically redirects to the configured login page
– a logout link if the user is authenticated which automatically calls the method FormsAuthentication.SignOut
for logging off the user.
You can customize the LoginStatus control easily, because …
How to program the ASP.NET Membership Login control in VB.NET
The ASP.NET membership Login control supports several events and properties and you can use them to customize its behavior. The Login control supports the next events:
Event
Description
LoggingIn
Raised before the user gets authenticated by the control.
Authenticate
Raised to authenticate the user. If you handle this event, you have to authenticate the user on your own, …
The ASP.NET membership Login control supports several events and properties and you can use them to customize its behavior. The Login control supports the next events:
Event
Description
LoggingIn
Raised before the user gets authenticated by the control.
Authenticate
Raised to authenticate the user. If you handle this event, you have to authenticate the user on …
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 …