Hello,

I have reached the chapter 16 in the "Beginning ASP.NET in C# and VB" of Imar. All the info you get from that book is really interesting.. want me to know more lol

Through, while i am reading.. tons of questions come to my head about the login controls. The login controls seem very powerful.. however in many custom scenario you still need to add or extend some features.. such :

1- The LoginName control show the username in the Format String.. but what if you wanna show the first and last name of the person instead ? Like Welcome Firstname Lastname..

2- The same goes with the confirmation mail.. is there a way to customize it more ? the mail seem to use some placeholders such <% Username %> what about i wanna show name and lastname instead ?

3- What if you want the user to add additional information in the sign up form ? however look like some infos can be found at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi...18/427754.aspx.. is there way to control, show or even use these data when the user is logged in ?

4- What if i wanna add something else in the login form along with the username and password.. lets say a company field where each company can log-on ? is there a way to detect which company the user selected ?

5- Ive heard about providers... are they used to controls the data ? is there ways to extend a provider or even create a new one so the data can be accessed on our own database instead ?

I am really interrested in the security domain of users and roles management.. however i just don't know where to look at after. If anyone have hints or whatever i would love to heard them about how to extend or customize the login controls or the features.

Thanks. This would be greatly appreciated.

Hi there,
Check out Chapter 17 as it deals with personalization using Profile. There are no built-in controls to display tthe first and last name, but with Profile you can easily do something like this yourself.

You need to do that yourself. Hook into the MailSending event, get hold of the message body and then customize it. Here's an example from the MSDN docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...v=VS.100).aspx

Again, Profile may be the answer here. Scott's article should put you on the right track once you understand Profile.

You can customize the Login template (like Scott does with the CreateUserWizard IIRC), add additional controls, handle the LoggedIn event and then read access your controls and do whatever you see fit with it.

Yes, as explained in the book, they provide the layer between the APIs in ASP.NET and the database, abstracting away the actual implementation. Take a look here for some ideas: http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=404

You may want to check out this book: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...764596985.html It doesn't show you directly how to customize each of the Login controls in depth but gives you a solid background in the security mechanisms and available providers which will make it easier to customize things yourself.

Cheers,

Imar

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At least there are many solutions available. This is because in PHP even if you had to code everything this was rather easy to implement such scenarios. But thanks a lots for your post. That will greatly help.