Click to Rate and Give Feedback
MSDN
MSDN Library
.NET Development
.NET Framework 3.5
 IsLockedOut Property
Collapse All/Expand All Collapse All
This page is specific to
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5

Other versions are also available for the following:
.NET Framework Class Library
MembershipUser..::.IsLockedOut Property

Gets a value indicating whether the membership user is locked out and unable to be validated.

Namespace:  System.Web.Security
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property IsLockedOut As Boolean
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As MembershipUser
Dim value As Boolean

value = instance.IsLockedOut
C#
public virtual bool IsLockedOut { get; }
Visual C++
public:
virtual property bool IsLockedOut {
    bool get ();
}
JScript
public function get IsLockedOut () : boolean

Property Value

Type: System..::.Boolean
true if the membership user is locked out and unable to be validated; otherwise, false.

Users are most commonly locked out and cannot be validated by the ValidateUser method when the MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts is reached within the PasswordAttemptWindow.

Users can also be locked out if you use the GetPassword or ResetPassword overload that accepts a password answer and the number of bad answers entered by the user reaches the Membership..::.MaxInvalidPasswordAttemptswithin the Membership..::.PasswordAttemptWindow.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
Tags What's this?: Add a tag
Community Content   What is Community Content?
Add new content RSS  Annotations
Usage Example      rtpHarry   |   Edit   |   Show History
You cannot set IsLockedOut, only inspect it. To reset the lock out use the following code:

public void UnlockUser(string UserName)
{
MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser(UserName);
if (user == null && !user.IsLockedOut) return;
user.UnlockUser();
}

Flag as ContentBug
Processing
© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement | Site Feedback
Page view tracker