In my previous article Using the Ajax Modal Popup as a Login Control – A Beginner`s Guide, I showed you how to implement a functioning Ajax Modal Popup form.  In this followup article, I will show you how to implement the code behind to compare the supplied username and password against credentials stored in your SQL database. Getting Started – The  SQL database backend For this example, we’re going to use a very simple SQL backend [...]

Ok, so the other day I was browsing some asp.Net Forums, answering question when I came across this little diamond.  The question was on simply passing parameters to a querystring and this is how it was answered. Q: How do I pass the UserId and Password to my login.aspx page? A: Have a Hyperlink control pointing to Login.aspx and append the Text of each textbox to the querystring as parameters, see below dim myPara as string= “?userid=” [...]

Something I see requested quite a bit online is the ability to have a popup form appear to allow the user to enter credentials for access to a website.  Using the AjaxToolkit Modal Popup this is easily done. In this example, I’ll walk you through Registering your AjaxControls, implementing the Popup and eventually adding the actual controls that will validate the user’s credentials against those in an example SQL Database. Getting Started – The AjaxControlToolkit [...]