Hello Stephen,
I think Dominick's suggestion is reasonable. From the requirement you
mentioned, you want to also provide an additional display name when the
user login through their logid. I think the Display name is an additional
field to the built-in membership provider, the built-in membership provider
exposs username, password, email, question, answer.... properties.
Therefore, if you want to attache such additional properties, you may
consider extending the default membership provider or use other storage
(such as the Profile properties Dominick mentioned). Would you also tell us
how you will use the display name in your application's code (some pseudo
code will be helpful). We can consider whch approach is better according to
your concrete scenario.
Here are some articles about the ASP.NET profile service and memberhip
provider
#ASP.NET Profile Properties
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/at64shx3.aspx
#Defining ASP.NET Profile Properties
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d8b58y5d.aspx
#ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security
Resources
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/438953.aspx
Please feel free to let me know if you have any further questions or ideas.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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