asp.net 4.0

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” />

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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:

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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

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When you are planning to implement membership API in production environment, you should create membership database manually. ASP.NET ships with SQL scripts that allow you to manually create the necessary database and database tables required for storing user and role information used by the membership API. ASP.NET also ships with a tool that creates these database …

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The membership API is based on top of forms authentication. It provides you with an out-of-the-box infrastructure for managing and authenticating users. For that reason, you have to configure your application for forms authentication as a first step. Usually, the the root directory of the web application grants access to anonymous users, while restricted resources are …

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