Is it possible to use the email instead of username?

[Alexis]

Is it possible to use the email instead of username in the login control.?

I'm using ASP.NET membership functionality.
I'd rather have each user account keyed on an
email instead of a user name. My main problem with user names is that
duplicates become likely and I don't want people to have to enter a bunch of
different user names before a unique one is found.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

There's nothing to prevent you from asking them to use their email address
as a username. Simply use a regular expression validator when they create
their account to ensure they are entering a valid email. You'll probably
want to hand-code the account creation process and set the username and
email to the value they enter.

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

I found using the email as userID more intuitive.

and then u can provide the First/Second name to display user name, without
showing user email

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

You can make use of the Membership.GetUserNameByEmail method to get the user
name and authenticate it programmatically.

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Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
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