How to use ASP.NET Membership class to validate users in VB.NET
The Membership class provides a method for validating a membership user. If a user has entered his user name and password in a login mask, you can use the ValidateUser() method for programmatically validating the information entered by the user, as follows:
Protected Sub LoginAction_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles LoginAction.Click
If Membership.ValidateUser(UsernameText.Text, PasswordText.Text) Then
How to use ASP.NET Membership class to create and delete users in the store in VB.NET
If you want to create users to your web site, you should follow the next steps:
1. Create a new page which contains the necessary text boxes for entering the required information.
2. Add a button
3. Handle the Click event of this button with the following code:
Protected Sub AddUser_Click(sender …
How to use ASP.NET Membership class to update users in the store in VB.NET
If you want to update a user in the membership store, you have to:
1. Retrieve the user from the store based on the approach described in the article: How to use ASP.NET Membership class to retrieve users from the store …
How to use ASP.NET Membership class to retrieve users from the store in VB.NET
If you want to retrieve a single user and a list of users through the Membership class from the membership store, you can create a simple page with a GridView control for binding the users to the grid, as follows:
<html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head runat=”server”>
<title>Display Users Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id=”form1″ runat=”server”>
<div>
<asp:GridView ID=”UsersGridView” runat=”server” DataKeyNames=”UserName” AutoGenerateColumns=”False”>
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField=”UserName” HeaderText=”Username” />
<asp:BoundField DataField=”Email” HeaderText=”Email” />
<asp:BoundField DataField=”CreationDate” …
How to use ASP.NET Membership CreateUserWizard control events in VB.NET
You can use the approach explained in the article How to use ASP.NET Membership CreateUserWizard control to create additional wizard steps. In this case you need to handle events and perform some actions within event procedures. For example if you are planning to collect additional information from the user with the wizard, you have to store …
How to customize ASP.NET membership PasswordRecovery control in VB.NET
You can customize the PasswordRecovery control completely, by using templates for every view:
– The UserNameTemplate contains all the controls displayed for the first step of the password recovery process when the user is required to enter the user name.
– The control of the password question step which is …
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, …
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 use Persistent Cookies with Forms Authentication in ASP.NET in VB.NET
Usually you will use in your projects nonpersistent authentication cookie to maintain the authentication ticket between requests. This means that if the user closes the browser, the cookie is immediately removed. The benefits are the following:
– This is a sensible step that ensures security. It’s particularly important with shared computers to prevent …
How to use Forms Authentication custom credentials store in ASP.NET in VB.NET
The credential store in web.config (described in the articles: How to use web.config as credential store with Forms Authentication in ASP.NET and How to hash ASP.NET Forms Authentication passwords in web.config in VB.NET ) is useful for simple scenarios only. You have not use web.config as the credential store, because:
– Potential lack of security: Even …