Using the Login Control

The Login control renders a standard user login form. By default, the Login control uses ASP.NET Membership to authenticate users. However, as you see in a moment, you can customize how the Login control authenticates users.

The Login control supports a large number of properties that enable you to customize the appearance and behavior of the control (too many properties to list here). The page in Listing 26.6 illustrates how you can modify several of the Login control’s properties to customize the form rendered by the control (see Figure 26.3).

Figure 26.3. Customizing the Login form.

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Listing 26.6. ShowLogin.aspx ...

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