Introduction:
Few days back I talked about that how you can
use the Login control in ASP.NET 2.0 to authenticate against the credentials
stored in the custom database. In this article I will show you that how you can
the CreateUserWizard to insert create new users for your application.
| You can check out the article
in which I used the ASP.NET 2.0 Login Control to authenticate a User against
custom database by using this link:
Authenticating Using Login Control |
Application Configuration:
The
first task that you need to perform is to configure your SQL SERVER 2000
database so that it can store membership details. The easiest way is to use the
aspnet_regsql.exe tool which will open graphical wizard and guide you to
configure your custom database to hold membership details. After providing the
information to the wizard you will see few tables created in your database. You
can view the screen shot
here.
The next task is to set the authentication mode
to "Forms". Take a look at the code below which shows how to achieve that:
| <authentication
mode="Forms">
<forms
loginUrl="Default.aspx"
protection="All"></forms>
</authentication> |
Now, you need to do the Membership
configuration. I will be using SQL SERVER 2000 as my data store meaning the data
will be stored in the tables which were created automatically when I ran
aspnet_regsql.exe. Here are the membership configuration details.
| <membership
defaultProvider="MyMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<add
name="MyMembershipProvider"
connectionStringName="ConnectionString"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
requiresUniqueEmail="false"
minRequiredPasswordLength ="3"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
/>
</providers>
</membership> |
As, you can see the name of the defaultProvider
is "MyMembershipProvider". In the <providers> section I have defined the
provider, "MyMembershipProvider" which takes the connectionStringName named "ConnectionString".
The type of the provider is SqlMembershipProvider. The additional properties
that I have used are explained below:
requiresQuestionAndAnswer: This
represents that if you want your user to enter a secret question and answer.
requiresUniqueEmail: This property is
used when you want to take email as input and email must be unique.
minRequiredPasswordLength: This property
sets the minimum length of the password.
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters:
The number of nonalphanumeric characters required for the password.
There are much more properties that you can set
for a full list of properties please visit
Membership Provider members.
Customizing the CreateUserWizard Control:
I have also customized the CreateUserWizard
control since I don't want the question & answer section. Here is the screen
shot of my registration page.
| The UserName and Password are
compulsory. If you omit either UserName or Password a runtime exception will
be thrown. |
Since, you have already configured the
Membership settings the data will be stored in the the aspnet_Users and
aspnet_Membership tables.
Storing the information in custom
database:
You can also store the data in your own custom
database. All you need to do is to use the CreatingUser method of the
CreateUserWizard. Check out the code below where I have send the data to my own
custom method which in turn will save the data in my custom database.
|
string
userName = CreateUserWizard1.UserName;
string
password = CreateUserWizard1.Password;
string
firstName = ((TextBox)CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep .ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("txtFirstName")).Text;
string
lastName = ((TextBox)CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep .ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("txtLastName")).Text;
CreateUser(userName, firstName, lastName);
|
As, you might already noticed that I am
retrieving the text out of the custom TextBoxes that I added in the
CreateUserWizard control. The TextBoxes are contained inside the
ContentTemplateContainer. I am using the id of the TextBoxes to locate them as
you can see in the code above.
You can implement the CreateUser method on your
own. I hope you liked the article, happy coding!
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