Installation

How to download the control, register it with the Visual Studio IDE and install it into your web application.

Downloading the control

You can download the Membership Manager control from this web site once you log into our membership system. You'll need to log into your (free) account to start the download but once you are logged in, you can download other files, review your download history and gain access to our Support Request system.

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Add the control to the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox

When you download and run the installation (.msi) file, the assembly QualityData.MembershipManager.dll will normally be located in a subdirectory of your Program Files folder.

To add the control to the Visual Studio toolbox, you will generally create or select a tab within the toolbox then right-click on that tab and select Choose Items to display the Choose Toolbox Items dialog. You'll then browse to and select the assembly. When you click OK, the control will be added to the toolbox tab.

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Adding the control to your web application

Once the Membership Manager Control has been added to the Visual Studio Toolbox, you can simply drag and drop it onto any web form. When you do so, Visual Studo copies the assembly QualityData.MembershipManager.dll to the bin folder of your web application.

Another way to do it

You can also add the control to your application by copying the assembly to your \bin folder and adding the Register directive and control tag in the source view of your page.

Here is the Register directive which you would place at the top of your web form code:

<%@ register assembly="QualityData.Membership" namespace="QualityData.Web.UI.WebControls" tagprefix="qd" %>

Here is the control tag that places the control onto the page:

<qd:MembershipManager ID="MembershipManager1" runat="server" />

Our introductory video illustrates the process of dragging the control from the toolbox and dropping it onto a web form. It goes on to demonstrate instant formatting and makes mention of the MembershipRole property which, by default, limits access to users in an Administrative role.