Is it possible to use the email instead of username?

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Alexis - 13 Dec 2007 03:31 GMT

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.

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Mark Fitzpatrick - 13 Dec 2007 03:48 GMT

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.

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Michael Nemtsev - 13 Dec 2007 04:03 GMT

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

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Eliyahu Goldin - 13 Dec 2007 08:55 GMT

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

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