Hi

I have borrowed your ASP.Net login page code and have tried to get it working. It all seems ok and I have made adjustments for my database and a asp:login control instead of textboxes.

Visual Studio 2005 doesn't like the line below, saying CommandBehavior has not been declared. I have tried removing the whole (..) bit so it just says myCmd.ExecuteReader which VS2005 accepts.

However when debugging the DBconnection function always seems to come back false, even if the username and password do exist in the database. I have tested my SQL in Access and it works.

Could someone explain what is happening with the objReader and what is wrong?

objReader = MyCmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)

Protected Sub Login_Authenticate(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.AuthenticateEventArgs) Handles Login1.Authenticate
        If Page.IsValid Then

            Dim intMaxLoginAttempts = CInt(Session("Num_of_Tries"))

            If DBConnection(Login1.UserName, Login1.Password) Then
                Session("Logged_IN") = "Yes"    '   |||||   Used to Validate on other pages in the application
                FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(Login1.UserName, False)  '   |||||   default.aspx Page!
            Else
                '   |||||   Credentials are Invalid
                Login1.FailureText = "Invalid Login!"
                '   |||||   Increment the LoginCount (attempts)
                Session("LoginCount") = CInt(Session("LoginCount")) + 1
                '   |||||   Determine the Number of Tries
                If Session("LoginCount").Equals(intMaxLoginAttempts) Then
                    Response.Redirect("error.aspx")
                End If

                'If CInt(Session("Num_of_Tries")) > 2 Then   '   |||||   If Exceeds then Deny!
                '    Response.Redirect("Denied.aspx")
                'End If

            End If
        End If
    End Sub

    Function DBConnection(ByVal strUserName As String, ByVal strPassword As String) As Boolean
        '<sumamry>
        '   |||||   Declare Required Variables
        '   |||||   Access appSettings of Web.Config for Connection String (Constant)
        '</summary>
        Dim MyConn As Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection = New Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("strConn"))
        '<sumamry>
        '   |||||   Create a OleDb Command Object
        '   |||||   Pass in Stored procedure
        '   |||||   Set CommandType to Stored Procedure
        '</summary>
        'original Dim MyCmd As New Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand(MyConn.Database.validateUser, MyConn)

        Dim MyCmd As New Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand("validateUser", MyConn)
        ' MyCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
        '   |||||   Create Parameter Objects for values passed in
        ' Dim objParam1, objParam2 As Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter
        '<sumamry>
        '   |||||   Add the parameters to the parameters collection of the
        '   |||||   command object, and set their datatypes (OleDbType in this case)
        '</summary>
        MyCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@UserName", Login1.UserName)
        MyCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Password", Login1.Password)


        '   |||||   Try, catch block!
        Try
            '   |||||   Check if Connection to DB is already open, if not, then open a connection
            If MyConn.State = Data.ConnectionState.Closed Then
                '   |||||   DB not already Open...so open it
                MyConn.Open()
            End If
            '   |||||   Create OleDb Data Reader
            Dim objReader As Data.OleDb.OleDbDataReader
            objReader = MyCmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
            '   |||||   Close the Reader and the Connection Closes with it

            While objReader.Read()
                If CStr(objReader.GetValue(0)) <> "1" Then
                    Login1.FailureText = "Invalid Login!"
                Else
                    objReader.Close()   '   |||||   Close the Connections & Reader
                    Return True
                End If
            End While
        Catch ex As Exception
            Login1.FailureText = "Error Connecting to Database!"
        End Try

Or if anyone can help, its probably something really obvious but i cant see it.

The above code you have used is for ASP.Net 1.0 or 1.1. Visual Studio 2005 is operating with ASP.Net 2.0.

The code is very different from the tutorial code I had created.

I am in the progress of creating an updated tutorial for those login examples, but my time is limit. I am working on a very complex Pharmacy Software system, and have limited chance to work on this extra material. My apologies

Hi Paladine,

No worries, thanks for your reply anyway.

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