I plan to use templates in my web project based on the tutorials by
smartisans.com ( http://www.*-*-*.com/ ). I
also want to use forms authentication in web.config since the entire site
will be password protected.

The problem is that I can't find an easy solution for using the
authentication together with the template (one .aspx-page containing a
placeholder for the content). Are there any tutorials on this? Here's my
web.config:

<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms name="NewsletterFormsAuth"
  loginUrl="login.aspx"
  protection="All"
  timeout="20" />
</authentication>

<authorization>
  <deny users="?" />
</authorization>

Since I want login.aspx to use the template as well, I need to allow
anonymous access to the default.aspx file, which is the template, but that
would also open up the rest of the site since all .ascx files are called
through default.aspx (like default.aspx?page=somepage.aspx)

How should I do this?

Thanks.
/Jonah

 I had the same problem... but i decided to solve this quickly... i wrote an
special LOGIN.ASPX page...that looks very different from the template i
have.

 Hope if you find some way to use the template... advise me ok?
jac

Thanks for your quick reply!

I was thinking of that too, but after taking a closer look at the tutorial
and how UI controls are inherited from the ascx files, I might just stick to
register tags on each aspx page and include them as page lets instead. :-/

This because I didn't find any solution to communicate with a web control on
the page since the page class inherits UserControl and not
System.Web.UI.Page. Do you know how to fix that?

/Jonah