send password - message

[jarow]

I have a forgot password page that successfully sends the password to a user. All I want to do is add a line of text that says "your email has been sent" when the request is valid and "your email address was not found" if the request fails . I want to be able to put that message in a row of the table. I am very new to asp.net and don't know how to do that. Here is the code that I have created ( I have not included the table and form information) that successfully sends the password:

Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Dim lostpwd AS string
Dim mailMessage As System.Web.Mail.MailMessage = New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
Dim passwordDS AS System.Data.DataSet = GetEmail(email.Text)
If passwordDS.Tables(0).Rows.Count = 1 Then
lostpwd = passwordDS.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item(“pwd”).ToString
mailMessage.From = "[email protected]"
mailMessage.To = email.Text
mailMessage.Subject = "Lost Password"
mailMessage.BodyFormat = System.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text
mailMessage.Body = "here is your password: " + lostpwd + chr(13) + "if you have questions, please contact the site administrator"
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "ciruelo.xxxx.xx"
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(mailMessage)
Else
End if

End Sub

Function GetEmail(ByVal email As String) As System.Data.DataSet
Dim connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Ole DB Services=-4; Data Source=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\xxxxx\xxxx.mdb"
Dim dbConnection As System.Data.IDbConnection = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString)

Dim queryString As String = "SELECT [authors].[pwd] FROM [authors] WHERE ([authors].[email] = @email)"
Dim dbCommand As System.Data.IDbCommand = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
dbCommand.CommandText = queryString
dbCommand.Connection = dbConnection

Dim dbParam_email As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter
dbParam_email.ParameterName = "@email"
dbParam_email.Value = email
dbParam_email.DbType = System.Data.DbType.String
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_email)

Dim dataAdapter As System.Data.IDbDataAdapter = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter
dataAdapter.SelectCommand = dbCommand
Dim dataSet As System.Data.DataSet = New System.Data.DataSet
dataAdapter.Fill(dataSet)

Return dataSet
End Function

Thanks alot

[Musician]

For starters I would tend to use a datareader for web pages 9 times out of 10 purely from a speed point of view but thats not a crucial point.

dim RetrieveMsg as string 'page wide variable that both functions can access

Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

if GetEmail(email.Text) then
Dim lostpwd AS string
Dim mailMessage As System.Web.Mail.MailMessage = New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
mailMessage.From = "[email protected]"
mailMessage.To = email.Text
mailMessage.Subject = "Lost Password"
mailMessage.BodyFormat = System.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text
mailMessage.Body = "here is your password: " + RetrieveMsg + chr(13) + "if you have questions, please contact the site administrator"
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "ciruelo.xxxx.xx"
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(mailMessage)
Else
label1.text = RetrieveMsg
End if

End Sub

Function GetEmail(ByVal email As String) As boolean
Dim connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Ole DB Services=-4; Data Source=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\xxxxx\xxxx.mdb"
Dim dbConnection As System.Data.IDbConnection = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString)
Dim queryString As String = "SELECT [authors].[pwd] FROM [authors] WHERE ([authors].[email] = @email)"
Dim dbCommand As System.Data.IDbCommand = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
dbCommand.CommandText = queryString
dbCommand.Connection = dbConnection
Dim dbParam_email As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter
dbParam_email.ParameterName = "@email"
dbParam_email.Value = email
dbParam_email.DbType = System.Data.DbType.String
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_email)
dim dr as System.Data.OleDb.oledbdatareader
try
conn.open
dr = cmd.executereader
if dr.read then
RetrieveMsg = dr.item("pwd").tostring
return true
else
RetrieveMsg = "Sorry but your email address was not found!"
return false
finally
conn.close
end try
End Function

[jarow]

thanks very much musician for your response. I have a couple of questions:

1. mailMessage.Body = "here is your password: " + RetrieveMsg + chr(13) + "if you have questions, please contact the site administrator"

the RetrieveMsg replaces 'lostpwd' right?

2. Else
label1.text = RetrieveMsg
End if

Do I need to create a label with id= label1 and place it on my page for the RetrieveMsg?

3. Lastly, I would also like to place a message on the page that says "your email has been successfullly sent" when the page is valid. How would I do that?

Many thanks

[Musician]

1. Yes. when the password is successfully retrieved it will be assigned to that variable.

2. I used a label in that example. you can use a Literal or a Label or just response.write but I would prefer to use an asp.net control for more control over the output. You can call the control anything you want just alter the code accordingly.

3. Just use the same label or whatever control you have on the page and set the text property with the text you want to display.