A newbie question

[Athena]

Hello,

I am new to programming for web (I know VB6). I just installed VS2005 VB
and Web Developer Express. I have a simple application to start learning.
Application is like this:

On the web page there are two text boxes for UserID and Password entry
and a Submit button. When a user enters a User ID and a password, the
program checks whether the user has access rights against some database,
Excel file or some data storage (not big) and if so opens a web page. That's
all.

I also need to be able to have means to enter the UserId and Passwords
of the clients to this database. If the UserID and password has a specific
combination, then two new fields become visible so that I can enter userID
and passwords into the database through a submit button. If the passwords
expiration time so the clients cannot enter the site after a predetermined
time would also be useful.

Any code samples, hints or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Athena

 

[Jarek Andrzejewski]

Any code samples, hints or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

www.codeproject.com - at the start.

 

[Andrew Faust]

You're in luck. Pretty much all the things you ask for are provided by
Asp.Net with virtually no programming necessary (including the Login
dialog). You want to google Membership Providers, Role Providers & the
Login Control. Using the default settings for these, Asp.Net will set up
and use a SQL Server Express database automatically to store user
information.

You should find plenty of examples.