Hi,

I was wondering, for the login-in control, if you want additional information from the user to login, how does it work? How does the control hook up to additional textboxes?

Can you provide some insight?

Best,
ASPC

You can customize the WizardSteps (or create new ones), add the necessary controls to them and save the additional data in Profile when the user is created. Scott Guthrie has written an excellent tutorial on this subject that shows you exactly how to do this:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi...18/427754.aspx

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar,

Thanks for the link. How does ASP.NET know to connect say the new textboxes for a wizard step to the user account? Do you have to go into the asp_users table and add new settings?

I'm used to writing custom solutions with php so this is way new for me :)

I guess what I'm saying is for more complicated situations, what the user registration and login controls offer out of the box might not be sufficient enough for my needs. Am I talking about the membership-provider? I'm a bit overwhelmed as this is way different from what I'm used to (but its also way better than what im used to :)

Not sure what you're asking. WHat kind of data / text boxes are you talking about?

You could convert the <asp:Login /> to a template so you can alter its underlying HTML (there's an option to do this on its Smart Tasks panel). Then you can access these controls in the various events that the Login control fires. You'll need to use FindControl to find your custom controls in the template.

Cheers,

Imar


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Say I drag a login control onto the page and then it shows a username and password textbox right? Say i want to have an additional textbox for the user to supply additional information to login..

How would I connect that additional textbox to the login control so that it validates that textbox as well? do i have to change something in the database ?

Did you see my previous reply? Did you convert the Login control to a template? That should give you the answer, doesn't it?

If not, please provide more information about what you're trying to accomplish and what you need the additional controls for.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Once you convert the login control to a template you can put anything in it as you would on a regular page. You can add validators as necessary. I'm not sure what the answer is to the question of how you hook added controls to the underlying data. I believe you would add code to the login event handlers and then deal with your particular data before or after the login process.

-Peter
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