ChangePassword.UserName Property

 

Gets or sets the Web site user name for which to change the password.

Namespace:   System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

abstract UserName : string with get, set
override UserName : string with get, set

Property Value

Type: System.String

The user name for which to change the password.

The UserName property gets the Web site user name for which to change the password. You can also use the UserName property just to get the user name from within the ChangePassword control, without changing the password. Additionally, the UserName property can be used from within an e-mail message that has been created to send e-mail from the ChangePassword control by using the string "<%UserName%>" in the body of the e-mail message.

To allow the user to type in a user name, set the DisplayUserName property to true. If a user is already authenticated, he or she does not need to enter a user name.

The following code example demonstrates an ASP.NET page that uses a ChangePassword Web control, and includes an event handler for the SendingMail event named SendingMail. The code example assumes that the ASP.NET Web site has been configured to use ASP.NET membership and Forms authentication, and that a user has been created whose name and password are known to you. For more information, see How to: Implement Simple Forms Authentication.

If the password change succeeds, the code attempts to use SMTP to send an e-mail message to the user to confirm the change. This is done in theSendingMail event handler. For information about how to configure an SMTP server, see NIB: How to: Install and Configure SMTP Virtual Servers in IIS 6.0. For the purposes of this example, it is not necessary to configure an SMTP server; the example is constructed to test for a failure to send an e-mail message.

If a mail server is not configured correctly or some other error occurs and the e-mail message cannot be sent, the SendMailError function is called. A message is displayed to the user. In addition, an event is logged to the Windows Application event log with the assumption that an event source named MySamplesSite already exists. See the code example below to create the specified event source. For more information about creating an event source, see Server Event Handling in ASP.NET Web Forms Pages. The Handled property of the SendMailErrorEventArgs object is set to true to indicate that the error has been handled.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Use the following code example if you need to programmatically add the event source named MySamplesSite to your Application log. This event source must exist in order for the first code example to work correctly. The following code example requires Administrator privileges.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

The following example code can be used as the ChangePasswordMail.htm file for the previous example code.

System_CAPS_security Security Note

Sending user account names or passwords in e-mail is a potential security threat. E-mail messages are typically sent in plain text and can be read by special network "sniffing" applications. To improve security, use the mitigations that are described in Securing Login Controls.

<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<form>

  <h1>Your password for the account named &quot;<%Username%>&quot; has changed.</h1>

  <p>
  If you did not initiate this change, please call 1-206-555-0100.
  </p>

  <p>
  <a href="http://www.contoso.com/login.aspx">
    <img src="cid:LoginGif" alt="Log In" />
  </a> 
  </p>

  <p>
  Please read our attached Privacy Notice.
  </p>

</form>
</body>
</html>

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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