I have a login form defined in a user control. The user control is then defined in my master page so that it appears on every page of the website. I managed to run all of the application security code through the code behind of the user control and when I'm done I simply have a DataTable with the current user's information so I can customize the page. This gives me one simple point of contact between the site wide security and each content page.

...So how do I access the DataTable from the Page_Load event of each of the content pages?

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What you've described appears to be a rather odd way of doing things (at least to me). Be that as it may, the normal way of interacting with a user control from a Page is to expose public properties on the user control.

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You were right, getting at the properties of the user control was awful. I just dumped it and wrote the code into the master page. Then I was able to access the DataTable through a master page method.

On postback, however, I don't have access to the DataTable. Once you refresh the page or request a new page, the DataTable is available thereafter.

I tried adding code to the function which processes the login, but logging in behaves the same with or without the code. How do I access the DataTable immediately after logging in?

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I'm sorry, what's the DataTable for again exactly?

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:) Got it!

It may not be elegant, but I've triggered an automatic page refresh on log in and log out so that the page displays the correct behavior. I used Request.Url to grab the current url of the content page, then I stuck the AbsoluteUri property into a Response.Redirect. Phew!

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I haven't been following this thread but it seems you are trying to build an "Identity Principle".
Google "asp.net authorisation" and and Im sure you will find far more elegant and stable ways of doing this.

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