LoginView Class

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Web.UI.WebControls

Assembly:: System.Web.dll

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Displays the appropriate content template for a given user, based on the user's authentication status and role membership.

public ref class LoginView : System::Web::UI::Control, System::Web::UI::INamingContainer

[System.ComponentModel.Bindable(false)]
[System.Web.UI.Themeable(true)]
public class LoginView : System.Web.UI.Control, System.Web.UI.INamingContainer

[<System.ComponentModel.Bindable(false)>]
[<System.Web.UI.Themeable(true)>]
type LoginView = class
    inherit Control
    interface INamingContainer

Public Class LoginView
Inherits Control
Implements INamingContainer

Inheritance: Object

Control
LoginView

Attributes: BindableAttribute ThemeableAttribute

Implements: INamingContainer

Examples

The following code example shows how to set templates for each of the three template types supported by the LoginView control.

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
    <head runat="server">
    <title>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
            <p>
                <asp:LoginStatus id="LoginStatus1" runat="server"></asp:LoginStatus></p>
            <p>
                <asp:LoginView id="LoginView1" runat="server">
                    <AnonymousTemplate>
                        Please log in for personalized information.
                    </AnonymousTemplate>
                    <LoggedInTemplate>
                        Thanks for logging in 
                        <asp:LoginName id="LoginName1" runat="Server"></asp:LoginName>.
                    </LoggedInTemplate>
                    <RoleGroups>
                        <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Admin">
                            <ContentTemplate>
                                <asp:LoginName id="LoginName2" runat="Server"></asp:LoginName>, you
                                are logged in as an administrator.
                            </ContentTemplate>
                        </asp:RoleGroup>
                    </RoleGroups>
                </asp:LoginView></p>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
    <head runat="server">
    <title>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
            <p>
                <asp:LoginStatus id="LoginStatus1" runat="server"></asp:LoginStatus></p>
            <p>
                <asp:LoginView id="LoginView1" runat="server">
                    <AnonymousTemplate>
                        Please log in for personalized information.
                    </AnonymousTemplate>
                    <LoggedInTemplate>
                        Thanks for logging in 
                        <asp:LoginName id="LoginName1" runat="Server"></asp:LoginName>.
                    </LoggedInTemplate>
                    <RoleGroups>
                        <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Admin">
                            <ContentTemplate>
                                <asp:LoginName id="LoginName2" runat="Server"></asp:LoginName>, you
                                are logged in as an administrator.
                            </ContentTemplate>
                        </asp:RoleGroup>
                    </RoleGroups>
                </asp:LoginView></p>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Remarks

In this topic:

Introduction
Declarative Syntax

Introduction

The LoginView control displays different Web site content templates (or "views") for different users, based on whether the user is authenticated and, if so, which Web site roles they belong to.

Note

If you are not familiar with the set of login controls available in ASP.NET, see ASP.NET Login Controls Overview before continuing. For a list of other topics related to login controls and membership, see Managing Users by Using Membership.

The template stored in the AnonymousTemplate property is displayed to any visitor to the Web site who has not logged in. Once a user is logged in, the site displays either a template associated with one of the user's roles in the RoleGroups property or the default template specified in the LoggedInTemplate property.

The LoginView control manages switching among the various templates once you assign templates to any of the three template properties of the LoginView class:

AnonymousTemplate - Specifies the template to display to users who are not logged in to the Web site. Users who are logged in will never see this template.
LoggedInTemplate - Specifies the default template to display to users who are logged in to the Web site but do not belong to any role groups with defined templates.
RoleGroups - Specifies the template to display to logged-in users who are members of roles with defined role-group templates. Content templates are associated with particular sets of roles in RoleGroup instances.

Role-group templates are searched in the order they are defined in the source. The first matching role-group template is displayed to the user. If a user is a member of more than one role, the first role-group template that matches any of the user's roles is used. If more than one template is associated with a single role, only the first defined template is used.

The following table describes the behavior of the LoginView control when various combinations of templates are used.

LoggedIn Template Property	Anonymous Template Property	RoleGroups Property	LoginView behavior
Not set	Not set	Not set	Displays no content.
Set	Not set	Not set	Displays content only when the user is logged in.
Not set	Set	Not set	Displays content only when the user is not logged in.
Not set	Not set	Set	Displays the first template in the RoleGroups collection that matches one of the user's roles. If no match is found, displays no content.
Set	Set	Not set	If the user is logged in, displays the template specified in the LoggedInTemplate property. If the user in not logged in, displays the template specified in the AnonymousTemplate property.
Set	Set	Set	If the user is logged in, displays the first template in the RoleGroups collection that matches one of the user's roles. If no match is found, displays the template specified in the LoggedInTemplate property. If the user is not logged in, displays the template specified in the AnonymousTemplate property.
Set	Not set	Set	If the user is logged in, displays the first template in the RoleGroups collection that matches one of the user's roles. If no match is found, displays the template specified in the LoggedInTemplate property. If the user is not logged in, nothing is displayed.
Not set	Set	Set	If the user is logged in, displays the first template in the RoleGroups collection that matches one of the user's roles. If no match is found, nothing is displayed. If the user is not logged in, displays the template specified in the AnonymousTemplate property.

The AnonymousTemplate and LoggedInTemplate can be used with any authentication scheme that sets the Name property of the Page object's User property. You must configure role management to use the RoleGroups property to define templates base on the user's role on the Web site. For more information, see Understanding Role Management.

The Focus method does not set the initial focus of the Web page to the LoginView control, or any of its child controls. Controls contained in the LoginView control are created after the PreRender event. To set the focus to a child control contained by the LoginView, handle the On_PreRender and call its Focus method. You can also use the ViewChanging and ViewChanged events to programmatically access the controls in the LoginView control templates.

Declarative Syntax

<asp:LoginView  
    EnableTheming="True|False"  
    EnableViewState="True|False"  
    ID="string"  
    OnDataBinding="DataBinding event handler"  
    OnDisposed="Disposed event handler"  
    OnInit="Init event handler"  
    OnLoad="Load event handler"  
    OnPreRender="PreRender event handler"  
    OnUnload="Unload event handler"  
    OnViewChanged="ViewChanged event handler"  
    OnViewChanging="ViewChanging event handler"  
    runat="server"  
    SkinID="string"  
    Visible="True|False"  
>  
        <AnonymousTemplate>  
            <!-- child controls -->  
        </AnonymousTemplate>  
        <LoggedInTemplate>  
            <!-- child controls -->  
        </LoggedInTemplate>  
        <RoleGroups>  
                <asp:RoleGroup  
                    Roles="string"  
                >  
                        <ContentTemplate>  
                            <!-- child controls -->  
                        </ContentTemplate>  
                </asp:RoleGroup>  
        </RoleGroups>  
</asp:LoginView>

Constructors

LoginView()

Initializes a new instance of the LoginView control.

Properties

Adapter	Gets the browser-specific adapter for the control. (Inherited from Control)
AnonymousTemplate	Gets or sets the template to display to users who are not logged in to the Web site.
AppRelativeTemplateSourceDirectory	Gets or sets the application-relative virtual directory of the Page or UserControl object that contains this control. (Inherited from Control)
BindingContainer	Gets the control that contains this control's data binding. (Inherited from Control)
ChildControlsCreated	Gets a value that indicates whether the server control's child controls have been created. (Inherited from Control)
ClientID	Gets the control ID for HTML markup that is generated by ASP.NET. (Inherited from Control)
ClientIDMode	Gets or sets the algorithm that is used to generate the value of the ClientID property. (Inherited from Control)
ClientIDSeparator	Gets a character value representing the separator character used in the ClientID property. (Inherited from Control)
Context	Gets the HttpContext object associated with the server control for the current Web request. (Inherited from Control)
Controls	Gets the ControlCollection object that contains the child controls for the LoginView control.
DataItemContainer	Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming container implements IDataItemContainer. (Inherited from Control)
DataKeysContainer	Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming container implements IDataKeysControl. (Inherited from Control)
DesignMode	Gets a value indicating whether a control is being used on a design surface. (Inherited from Control)
EnableTheming	Gets or sets a value indicating whether themes can be applied to the LoginView control.
EnableViewState	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the server control persists its view state, and the view state of any child controls it contains, to the requesting client. (Inherited from Control)
Events	Gets a list of event handler delegates for the control. This property is read-only. (Inherited from Control)
HasChildViewState	Gets a value indicating whether the current server control's child controls have any saved view-state settings. (Inherited from Control)
ID	Gets or sets the programmatic identifier assigned to the server control. (Inherited from Control)
IdSeparator	Gets the character used to separate control identifiers. (Inherited from Control)
IsChildControlStateCleared	Gets a value indicating whether controls contained within this control have control state. (Inherited from Control)
IsTrackingViewState	Gets a value that indicates whether the server control is saving changes to its view state. (Inherited from Control)
IsViewStateEnabled	Gets a value indicating whether view state is enabled for this control. (Inherited from Control)
LoadViewStateByID	Gets a value indicating whether the control participates in loading its view state by ID instead of index. (Inherited from Control)
LoggedInTemplate	Gets or sets the template to display to Web site users who are logged in to the Web site but are not members of one of the role groups specified in the RoleGroups property.
NamingContainer	Gets a reference to the server control's naming container, which creates a unique namespace for differentiating between server controls with the same ID property value. (Inherited from Control)
Page	Gets a reference to the Page instance that contains the server control. (Inherited from Control)
Parent	Gets a reference to the server control's parent control in the page control hierarchy. (Inherited from Control)
RenderingCompatibility	Gets a value that specifies the ASP.NET version that rendered HTML will be compatible with. (Inherited from Control)
RoleGroups	Gets a collection of role groups that associate content templates with particular roles.
Site	Gets information about the container that hosts the current control when rendered on a design surface. (Inherited from Control)
SkinID	Gets or sets the skin to apply to the LoginView control.
TemplateControl	Gets or sets a reference to the template that contains this control. (Inherited from Control)
TemplateSourceDirectory	Gets the virtual directory of the Page or UserControl that contains the current server control. (Inherited from Control)
UniqueID	Gets the unique, hierarchically qualified identifier for the server control. (Inherited from Control)
ValidateRequestMode	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control checks client input from the browser for potentially dangerous values. (Inherited from Control)
ViewState	Gets a dictionary of state information that allows you to save and restore the view state of a server control across multiple requests for the same page. (Inherited from Control)
ViewStateIgnoresCase	Gets a value that indicates whether the StateBag object is case-insensitive. (Inherited from Control)
ViewStateMode	Gets or sets the view-state mode of this control. (Inherited from Control)
Visible	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a server control is rendered as UI on the page. (Inherited from Control)

Methods

AddedControl(Control, Int32)	Called after a child control is added to the Controls collection of the Control object. (Inherited from Control)
AddParsedSubObject(Object)	Notifies the server control that an element, either XML or HTML, was parsed, and adds the element to the server control's ControlCollection object. (Inherited from Control)
ApplyStyleSheetSkin(Page)	Applies the style properties defined in the page style sheet to the control. (Inherited from Control)
BeginRenderTracing(TextWriter, Object)	Begins design-time tracing of rendering data. (Inherited from Control)
BuildProfileTree(String, Boolean)	Gathers information about the server control and delivers it to the Trace property to be displayed when tracing is enabled for the page. (Inherited from Control)
ClearCachedClientID()	Sets the cached ClientID value to `null`. (Inherited from Control)
ClearChildControlState()	Deletes the control-state information for the server control's child controls. (Inherited from Control)
ClearChildState()	Deletes the view-state and control-state information for all the server control's child controls. (Inherited from Control)
ClearChildViewState()	Deletes the view-state information for all the server control's child controls. (Inherited from Control)
ClearEffectiveClientIDMode()	Sets the ClientIDMode property of the current control instance and of any child controls to Inherit. (Inherited from Control)
CreateChildControls()	Creates the child controls that make up the LoginView control.
CreateControlCollection()	Creates a new ControlCollection object to hold the child controls (both literal and server) of the server control. (Inherited from Control)
DataBind()	Binds a data source to LoginView and all its child controls.
DataBind(Boolean)	Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child controls with an option to raise the DataBinding event. (Inherited from Control)
DataBindChildren()	Binds a data source to the server control's child controls. (Inherited from Control)
Dispose()	Enables a server control to perform final clean up before it is released from memory. (Inherited from Control)
EndRenderTracing(TextWriter, Object)	Ends design-time tracing of rendering data. (Inherited from Control)
EnsureChildControls()	Determines whether the server control contains child controls. If it does not, it creates child controls. (Inherited from Control)
EnsureID()	Creates an identifier for controls that do not have an identifier assigned. (Inherited from Control)
Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object)
FindControl(String, Int32)	Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified `id` and an integer, specified in the `pathOffset` parameter, which aids in the search. You should not override this version of the FindControl method. (Inherited from Control)
FindControl(String)	Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified `id` parameter. (Inherited from Control)
Focus()	Sets input focus to a control.
GetDesignModeState()	Gets design-time data for a control. (Inherited from Control)
GetHashCode()	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object)
GetRouteUrl(Object)	Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters. (Inherited from Control)
GetRouteUrl(RouteValueDictionary)	Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters. (Inherited from Control)
GetRouteUrl(String, Object)	Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route name. (Inherited from Control)
GetRouteUrl(String, RouteValueDictionary)	Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route name. (Inherited from Control)
GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object)
GetUniqueIDRelativeTo(Control)	Returns the prefixed portion of the UniqueID property of the specified control. (Inherited from Control)
HasControls()	Determines if the server control contains any child controls. (Inherited from Control)
HasEvents()	Returns a value indicating whether events are registered for the control or any child controls. (Inherited from Control)
IsLiteralContent()	Determines if the server control holds only literal content. (Inherited from Control)
LoadControlState(Object)	This method implements LoadControlState(Object).
LoadViewState(Object)	Restores view-state information from a previous page request that was saved by the SaveViewState() method. (Inherited from Control)
MapPathSecure(String)	Retrieves the physical path that a virtual path, either absolute or relative, maps to. (Inherited from Control)
MemberwiseClone()	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object)
OnBubbleEvent(Object, EventArgs)	Determines whether the event for the server control is passed up the page's UI server control hierarchy. (Inherited from Control)
OnDataBinding(EventArgs)	Raises the DataBinding event. (Inherited from Control)
OnInit(EventArgs)	Raises the Init event.
OnLoad(EventArgs)	Raises the Load event. (Inherited from Control)
OnPreRender(EventArgs)	Determines which role-group template to display, based on the roles of the logged-in user.
OnUnload(EventArgs)	Raises the Unload event. (Inherited from Control)
OnViewChanged(EventArgs)	Raises the ViewChanged event after the LoginView control switches views.
OnViewChanging(EventArgs)	Raises the ViewChanging event before the LoginView control switches views.
OpenFile(String)	Gets a Stream used to read a file. (Inherited from Control)
RaiseBubbleEvent(Object, EventArgs)	Assigns any sources of the event and its information to the control's parent. (Inherited from Control)
RemovedControl(Control)	Called after a child control is removed from the Controls collection of the Control object. (Inherited from Control)
Render(HtmlTextWriter)	Renders the Web server control content to the client's browser using the specified HtmlTextWriter object.
RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter)	Outputs the content of a server control's children to a provided HtmlTextWriter object, which writes the content to be rendered on the client. (Inherited from Control)
RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter, ControlAdapter)	Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object using a provided ControlAdapter object. (Inherited from Control)
RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter)	Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object and stores tracing information about the control if tracing is enabled. (Inherited from Control)
ResolveAdapter()	Gets the control adapter responsible for rendering the specified control. (Inherited from Control)
ResolveClientUrl(String)	Gets a URL that can be used by the browser. (Inherited from Control)
ResolveUrl(String)	Converts a URL into one that is usable on the requesting client. (Inherited from Control)
SaveControlState()	Saves any server control state changes that have occurred since the time the page was posted back to the server.
SaveViewState()	Saves any server control view-state changes that have occurred since the time the page was posted back to the server. (Inherited from Control)
SetDesignModeState(IDictionary)	Sets design-time data for a control.
SetRenderMethodDelegate(RenderMethod)	Assigns an event handler delegate to render the server control and its content into its parent control. (Inherited from Control)
SetTraceData(Object, Object, Object)	Sets trace data for design-time tracing of rendering data, using the traced object, the trace data key, and the trace data value. (Inherited from Control)
SetTraceData(Object, Object)	Sets trace data for design-time tracing of rendering data, using the trace data key and the trace data value. (Inherited from Control)
ToString()	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object)
TrackViewState()	Causes tracking of view-state changes to the server control so they can be stored in the server control's StateBag object. This object is accessible through the ViewState property. (Inherited from Control)

Events

DataBinding	Occurs when the server control binds to a data source. (Inherited from Control)
Disposed	Occurs when a server control is released from memory, which is the last stage of the server control lifecycle when an ASP.NET page is requested. (Inherited from Control)
Init	Occurs when the server control is initialized, which is the first step in its lifecycle. (Inherited from Control)
Load	Occurs when the server control is loaded into the Page object. (Inherited from Control)
PreRender	Occurs after the Control object is loaded but prior to rendering. (Inherited from Control)
Unload	Occurs when the server control is unloaded from memory. (Inherited from Control)
ViewChanged	Occurs after the view is changed.
ViewChanging	Occurs before the view is changed.

Explicit Interface Implementations

IControlBuilderAccessor.ControlBuilder	For a description of this member, see ControlBuilder. (Inherited from Control)
IControlDesignerAccessor.GetDesignModeState()	For a description of this member, see GetDesignModeState(). (Inherited from Control)
IControlDesignerAccessor.SetDesignModeState(IDictionary)	For a description of this member, see SetDesignModeState(IDictionary). (Inherited from Control)
IControlDesignerAccessor.SetOwnerControl(Control)	For a description of this member, see SetOwnerControl(Control). (Inherited from Control)
IControlDesignerAccessor.UserData	For a description of this member, see UserData. (Inherited from Control)
IDataBindingsAccessor.DataBindings	For a description of this member, see DataBindings. (Inherited from Control)
IDataBindingsAccessor.HasDataBindings	For a description of this member, see HasDataBindings. (Inherited from Control)
IExpressionsAccessor.Expressions	For a description of this member, see Expressions. (Inherited from Control)
IExpressionsAccessor.HasExpressions	For a description of this member, see HasExpressions. (Inherited from Control)
IParserAccessor.AddParsedSubObject(Object)	For a description of this member, see AddParsedSubObject(Object). (Inherited from Control)

Extension Methods

FindDataSourceControl(Control)	Returns the data source that is associated with the data control for the specified control.
FindFieldTemplate(Control, String)	Returns the field template for the specified column in the specified control's naming container.
FindMetaTable(Control)	Returns the metatable object for the containing data control.
GetDefaultValues(INamingContainer)	Gets the collection of the default values for the specified data control.
GetMetaTable(INamingContainer)	Gets the table metadata for the specified data control.
SetMetaTable(INamingContainer, MetaTable, IDictionary<String,Object>)	Sets the table metadata and default value mapping for the specified data control.
SetMetaTable(INamingContainer, MetaTable, Object)	Sets the table metadata and default value mapping for the specified data control.
SetMetaTable(INamingContainer, MetaTable)	Sets the table metadata for the specified data control.
TryGetMetaTable(INamingContainer, MetaTable)	Determines whether table metadata is available.
EnableDynamicData(INamingContainer, Type, IDictionary<String,Object>)	Enables Dynamic Data behavior for the specified data control.
EnableDynamicData(INamingContainer, Type, Object)	Enables Dynamic Data behavior for the specified data control.
EnableDynamicData(INamingContainer, Type)	Enables Dynamic Data behavior for the specified data control.

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