How to update the MasterPage "header"

jks3421 · February 4th, 2010, 11:18 PM

Hi,

I am a newbie and attempting to learn asp.net.

I have a login textbox, a password textbox, a login button and a LoginStatus label at the top of the master page (in what I would call the "header" section/area). When the login button is clicked, I do the click event of the button, validate the user, and then redirect to the "registration.aspx" page if login was successful. I would like to update the LoginStatus label with a string such as "Welcome {user's username}". As folks navigate through out the various pages of the website, I would like to keep the lblLoginStatus displayed. I want the label to be displayed when the "registration.aspx" is finished loading to give a visual indicator that the login was successful.

I don't know the appropriate approach to accomplish this. I hope this message makes sense.

Thanks
Keith

Lee Dumond · February 5th, 2010, 03:12 AM

Code:

<asp:LoginView ID="loginView" runat="server">
    <AnonymousTemplate>
        <a href="/login.aspx" title="Log in using your user name and password">Log In</a>
    </AnonymousTemplate>
    <LoggedInTemplate>
        Welcome <asp:LoginName ID="loginName" runat="server" />!        
        <asp:LoginStatus ID="loginStatus2" runat="server" LogoutText="Log Out" />      
    </LoggedInTemplate>
</asp:LoginView>