ASP.NET Membership: Login Controls Source Code

Question

Is the source code for the common login controls available?

Those are the controls which are available under Login section in Toolbox:

• Login,
• LoginView,
• PasswordRecovery,
• LoginStatus,
• LoginName,
• CreateUserWizard,
• ChangePassword

Eventually could you point me to a good source of custom implementation of functionality that those controls provide, or some guidance on implementing this functionality without using the mentioned controls.

I am using Visual Studio 2005 (.net2)

I will be using SQLMembershipProvider as the MembershipProvider but that probably should make no difference.

Answer 1

"the entire framework is available" is not true. :)

Answer 2

The source code for the entire framework is available. The link below provides some details as to how to access:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx

Answer 3

I am going to give this a qualified "NO".

I have gone down the road of implementing an implementation of the Login server control using reflected source as a starting point (this was before symbol server integration).

Things seem to go swimmingly, with a few reflection hacks to get to core framework members that obviate reams of code.

Until you get to the designers. That infrastructure is a minefield and gets wide and deep with a quickness and is filled with even deeper buried internal types that need implementations or reflection hacks.

Ultimately wound up with a working control that I could extend but would never want to maintain.

The effort was not wasted; I learned a lot about how over engineered server controls are designed.

And then I just shifted a login control to template mode and got everything I needed to get done in a few lines of code. ;-)

Except as a learning experience I would certainly recommend against going down that road.

Good luck.