ASp.net 2.0 login name control

kulkarnimonica · June 27th, 2007, 02:12 PM

Hi, I m using the login name control to display a welcome message once the user is logged in.

Currently it displays the username that the user enters in the username text box of login control.

I want to be able to use the First Name and Last Name as welcome login text. How can I do this?

Imar · June 27th, 2007, 02:26 PM

Hi there,

You can't do that directly with the LoginName control. You can set the FormatString property to customize the welcome text a but, bit it will always display the user name.

You can, however, use a LoginView control with a LoggedInTemplate that only shows for logged in users like this:

Code:

<asp:LoginView ID="LoginView1" runat="server">
  <LoggedInTemplate>
    Hi there: 
      <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
  </LoggedInTemplate>
</asp:LoginView>

Then from the code behind you can set the text of the label. You need to use FindControl on the LoginView to find the label first.

First name and last names are not available out of the box. Look into [ur="http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/profile/default.aspx"l]ASP.NET Profiles[/url] for some ideas about storing user specific data.

Cheers,

Imar

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kulkarnimonica · June 27th, 2007, 07:11 PM

Thank you Sir,

Well, I am trying to avoid using profile provider for personal information since my application would be need FirstName or DepartmentName to query the database.

So now, I have two options.
In database,
1. Either add columns to existing membership table
2. Or Create a new custom table to store personal information.

In CreateWizard control,
1. Either add new fields to the Sign In step (Overload the CreateUser function to take in additional parameters, I will also have to implement custom MmembershipUser class to accomodate extra information.

2.Or Create a new Wizard Step
On Finish of this step , save the data to your custom personal information table.

I am really confused about which approach is the better one..!
Could you please suggest me something on this.

Will I be safe If I take approach 2.

Really appreciate your help.
Thanks,
--Monika

Imar · June 28th, 2007, 01:08 AM

Hi there,

Take a look here: http://www.asp.net/downloads/teampro....aspx?tabid=62

Look under "Table Profile Provider Samples"; you'll find different provider implementations that allow you to query the data later.

Then take a look here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi...18/427754.aspx

It shows you how to customize the CreateUserWizard to do exactly what you want.

Cheers,

Imar

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kulkarnimonica · June 28th, 2007, 04:22 PM

Thank you very much.

One quick question regarding CreateUserWizard Control.
I am not able to customize the "Create User" button.

What to do if I want to change the Text of that button to say "Register".

Also, a click on "Create User" button makes a call to Membership.CreateUser. Is there a way I can make this function call my overloaded CreateUser function.?

Sorry if I sound really stupid.

--Monika

Imar · June 28th, 2007, 04:33 PM

Quote:

quote:I am not able to customize the "Create User" button.

Have you looked at the CreateUserButtonText property?

Quote:

quote:Is there a way I can make this function call my overloaded CreateUser function.?

Handle the CreatingUser event of the control and call whatever you want. Then set e.Cancel = true to prevent the ASP.NET runtime from doing its own thing.

Cheers,

Imar

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kulkarnimonica · June 28th, 2007, 05:27 PM

Hi,
I tried to handle it in CreatingUser event of CreateUserWizard
But the EventArgs e does not have a Cancel property with e.

Imar · June 29th, 2007, 01:17 AM

How does your code look? The CreatingUser event does have an e argument that exposes a Cancel property. Normal EventArgs don't, but the LoginCancelEventArgs do.

Imar

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kulkarnimonica · June 29th, 2007, 02:27 PM

My code was liked this.

protected void CreateUserWizard1_CreatingUser(object sender, EventArgs e)

I copy-pasted the CreatedUser event and just changed the name to CreatingUser and hence this mistake.

Now , I have changed the EventArgs parameter to LoginCancelEventArgs and now it works.... Thanks a lot.!

Is there anyway, that Visual Studio 2005 will automatically add stubs for the event handlers that I need to implement.
The way I m doing right now is I check the supported events from intellisense and then go in msdn to find the signature for that and write it according in my code.

Any , better way of doing this?

Imar · June 29th, 2007, 04:08 PM

Yes there is. Select the control in Design View, press F4 to open up the Properties grid, click the button with the lightning bolt to switch to Event mode and double-click the event of your choice.

VS will add the method stub for you.

Cheers.

Imar

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