how do i find the status of loginstatus?

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Hello i am using visual studio and c# for a project at university. I have only just started using c# I have a website which you can log in and out of. I have a lable on my site that contains text saying you are logged in as: next to it is the [loginname]. i want to be able to hide the lable when nobody is loged in. and reveal the lable when they are. i know i can use .visible = true/false on the lable. i also realise it needs to be in an if statement. How do i retrieve the status of the login status? i have tried putting if (loginstatus = true) when i do this it says: CS0118: 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.LoginStatus' is a 'type' but is used like a 'variable' is it possible to retrieve the status of the login status to use it as a condition?

Nikola 0 · Answer

One way of keeping track of a login status is sessions. Upon verification of the user create a session object and add it to the session state. Session.Add(s_loginstatus sessioncontents); On your subsuquent pages check to see if the session object exists: if(Session[s_loginstatus] == null ) { LoginStatus.Visible = false ; } else { LoginStatus.Visible = true ; } sessioncontents is of type object