[RESOLVED] winforms to web

[trevorjeaton]

Hi all,

I have been browsing and reading reading reading to find the simplest way to develop a webforms authentication page that connects to an existing sql 2008 server and authenticates against it.

I am trying to keep this as simple as possible, but every example i've come across is a gazillion lines of code in order to accomplish "is this username in the database, and if so does the password match" - if the answer to that is yes, let 'em in.

I'm seeing the login controls of asp.net where it uses the entire security model - etc etc.....all i want to do is have a page with username and password fields and a login button on it, check it against an already existing table that has only two fields in it - username and password.......

IIS is 7.5 and is on one server and SQL is 2008R2 on another.....

is there a quick and dirty solution to this?



***EDIT*** By the way, I'm a winforms guy up to this point and this will be step 1 in putting this app together for the web. It currently exists as a winform app